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Evelina Kravchenko

Evelina Anatoliivna Kravchenko is a Ukrainian archaeologist, Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology of the NAS of Ukraine, and a researcher of the archaeology of Crimea and the Northern Black Sea region in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages.

Overview

Evelina Kravchenko is known for her many years of research into the multi-layered settlement of Uch-Bash and the Sakharna Holovka settlement in the Inkerman Valley near Sevastopol (she led the Inkerman Expedition of the IA of the NASU in 2006–2013).

She is the responsible editor and principal author of the interdisciplinary monograph "From Bronze to Iron: The Economy of the Inhabitants of the Inkerman Valley" (Kyiv, 2016). On the advice of the prominent archaeologist Oleksandr Leskov, she discovered the materials of S. Strzheletskyi in the collections of the Tauric Chersonesos Reserve, and also initiated the restoration, processing, and publication of the monograph on the exemplary Bilozerska culture burial ground near the village of Shyroke (2019).

Key Details / Subtopics

  • Academic work and Uch-Bash: She studied Bronze and Early Iron Age sites of Mountainous and Southwestern Crimea. She led the excavations of the Uch-Bash settlement (2006–2013), establishing its function as the region's oldest iron-working center and revealing the chronological horizons of its connections with the Bilozerska culture and the Kizyl-Koba culture.
  • Reconstruction of Inkerman's paleoeconomy: She carried out an interdisciplinary synthesis of archaeological, paleoethnobotanical, archaeozoological, and traceological data, dispelling the myths about "primitive Taurians" and creating a holistic concept of the paleoeconomy of the Inkerman Valley during the transition from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age in Crimea.
  • Processing and publication of the Shyroke burial ground: In 2009 she initiated the arrangement, restoration of ceramics, and digitization of the excavation report materials of O. Leskov from 1961–1963. She served as the responsible editor, compiler, and co-author of the fundamental collective monograph "The Bilozerska Culture Burial Ground near the Village of Shyroke" (Lviv–Vynnyky, 2019).
  • Synchronization of Crimea and the Dnieper region: She substantiated the concept of the unity of the Lower Dnieper and Crimean sites of the Bilozerska culture, proving the existence of an overland trade route from the Caucasus through Crimea to the Dnieper in the 11th–10th centuries BCE.
  • Protection of cultural heritage: She actively highlights the problems of preserving the monuments of Crimea, the destruction of the cultural layer by occupying russian troops, and the war crimes of the USSR (in particular, the blowing up of Special Combine No. 1 in the Uch-Bash adits in 1942).