title: How Storage Pits Were Used to Make Burial Constructions in the Cemetery of Levadki in the Central Crimea
abstract: The cemetery of Levadki located int eh vicinity of present-day Simferopol existed from the mid-/second half of the second century BC to the mid-third century AD and belonged to the Late Scythian and Sarmatian populations. The many-year-long researches uncovered 193 funeral structures. Moreover, 33 storage pits were discovered in different cemetery areas. The household complex with the said pits probably was a peripheral area of the nearby fortified settlement of Zmeinoe. There were two cases of 
journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria