Archaeological Evidence of Migration from the Southern Taiga of Western Siberia to the Urals in the Early Middle Ages: The Vodennikovo-1 Cemetery

2022 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
N. P. Matveeva ◽  
E. A. Tretyakov ◽  
A. S. Zelenkov
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Solid Wood ◽  
Southern Taiga ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Evidence

We describe 15 burials at the Vodennikovo-1 group of mounds in the northern Kurgan Region, on the Middle Iset River, relevant to migration processes during the Early Middle Ages. On the basis of numerous parallels from contemporaneous sites in the Urals and Western Siberia, the cemetery is dated to the late 7th and 8th centuries. Most of single and collective burials are inhumations in rectangular pits with a northwestern orientation, with vessels, decorated by carved or pricked designs, placed near the heads. These features, typical of the Early Medieval Bakalskaya culture of the Tobol and Ishim basins, are also observed at the Pereyma and Ust-Suerskoye-1 cemeteries in the same area. However, there are innovations such as inlet burials, those in blocks of solid wood and plank coffi ns, western orientation of the deceased, and placing vessels next to the burial pits. These features attest to a different tradition, evidenced by cemeteries of the Potchevash culture in the Tobol and Ishim basins (Okunevo III, Likhacheva, and Vikulovskoye). Also, Potchevash and Bakalskaya vessels co-occur at Vodennikovo-1, and some of them (jugs with comb and grooved designs) are typologically syncretic. To date, this is the westernmost cemetery of the Potchevash culture, suggestive of a migration of part of the southern taiga population from the Ishim and Tobol area to the Urals.

Archaeological Evidence of Migration from the Southern Taiga of Western Siberia to the Urals in the Early Middle Ages: The Vodennikovo-1 Cemetery

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
N. P. Matveeva ◽  
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E. A. Tretyakov ◽  
A. S. Zelenkov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Southern Taiga ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Evidence

Рассматриваются 15 погребений курганного могильника Воденниково-1, расположенного на севере Курганской обл. в среднем течении р. Исеть. Памятник интересен для изучения миграционных процессов раннего Средневековья. На основании широких аналогий в материалах синхронных памятников Урало-Сибирского региона комплекс датирован концом VII — VIII в. н.э. Большая часть одиночных и коллективных захоронений совершена по обряду ингумации в прямоугольных могильных ямах с северо-западной ориентировкой покойного, размещением керамики у изголовья, посудой с резной и накольчатой орнаментацией. Данные черты погребального обряда характерны для раннесредневековой бакальской культуры Тоболо-Ишимья и находят параллели среди материалов Перейминского и Усть-Суерского-1 могильников. Вместе с тем на памятнике встречены впускные погребения, а также захоронения в деревянных колодах и гробовищах, западная ориентировка умерших и установка сосудов рядом с могильными ямами. Новации отражают иную традицию, находящую параллели среди погребальных комплексов потчевашской культуры Ишимо-Иртышья, таких как Окунево III, Лихачевский, Викуловское кладбище. Кроме того, отмечены совместное залегание керамики потчевашского и бакальского типов, а также синкретичные кувшинные формы сосудов с мелкогребенчатой и желобчатой орнаментацией. На сегодня могильник Воден-никово-1 является самым западным памятником с материалами потчевашской культуры, позволяющим говорить о переселении части южно-таежного населения Ишимо-Иртышья на Урал.

Land and Power from Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England?

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Moreland
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Late Roman

AbstractArchaeology, and in particular the study of ceramics, lies at the heart of the interpretive schemes that underpin Framing the Early Middle Ages. While this is to be welcomed, it is proposed that even more extensive use of archaeological evidence - especially that generated through the excavation of prehistoric burial-mounds and rural settlements, as well as the study of early medieval coins - would have produced a rather more dynamic and nuanced picture of the transformations in social and political structures that marked the passage from late Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England.

Poet of the Medieval Modern

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
In Parenthesis ◽  
Stone Sculpture

The early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to reimagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. Poet of the Medieval Modern focuses on a key figure within this tradition, the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895–1974), and represents the first extended study of the influence of early medieval culture and history from England on Jones and his novel-length late modernist poem The Anathemata (1952). The Anathemata, the second major poetic project after In Parenthesis (1937), fuses Jones’s visual and verbal arts to write a Catholic history of Britain as told through the history of man-as-artist. Drawing on unpublished archival material including manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and, most significantly, the marginalia from David Jones’s Library, Poet of the Medieval Modern reads with Jones in order to trouble the distinction we make between poetry and scholarship. Placing this underappreciated figure firmly at the centre of new developments in modernist and medieval studies, Poet of the Medieval Modern brings the two fields into dialogue and argues that Jones uses the textual and material culture of the early Middle Ages—including Old English prose and poetry, Anglo-Latin hagiography, early medieval stone sculpture, manuscripts, and historiography—to re-envision British Catholic identity in the twentieth-century long poem. In The Anathemata Jones returned to the English record to seek out those moments where the histories of the Welsh had been elided or erased. At a time when the Middle Ages are increasingly weaponized in far-right and nationalist political discourse, the book offers a timely discussion of how the early medieval past has been resourced to both shore up and challenge English hegemonies across modern British culture.

On Early Medieval Contacts of the Urals and Western Siberia with Central Asia: The Evidence of Ceramics

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-77
Author(s):  
N. P. Matveeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
The Urals ◽  
Early Medieval

Рассматривается керамика кушнаренковского типа с памятников Приуралья и бакальской культуры Западной Сибири IV-VIII вв. Она выделена исследователями в 60-х гг. ХХ в. как показатель крупных миграционных процессов, связанных с этногенезом мадьяр. Анализ форм, технологии производства и декора керамики данного типа позволил выявить импортные изделия и местные подражания посуде из Приаралья. В музейных коллекциях керамики из джетыасарских могильников Алтынасар-4, Бедаикасар-2, Косасар-2 и -3, Томпакасар обнаружены сосуды, относящиеся к бакальской культуре, а также образцы, по которым изготавливались подражания в лесостепной зоне. Учтен результат сравнительно-статистического анализа погребального обряда синхронных уральских и западно-сибирских культур, согласно которому специфические характеристики для погребений с кушнаренковскими сосудами не выявлены. Эти факты вместе с художественной утварью, монетами, престижными украшениями и поясной гарнитурой рассматриваются как свидетельства активной караванной торговли в урало-западносибирско-казахстанском регионе. Предлагается не расценивать кушнаренковский таксон в качестве археологической культуры, сохранить употребление термина «кушнаренковский» для типа керамики, считать эту керамику отражением субкультуры, обслуживавшей престижное потребление, и связывать с продукцией бродячих ремесленников или производством в торговых факториях.

Human–Bovine Plagues in the Early Middle Ages

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy P. Newfield
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Molecular Clock ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages

Two independent molecular clock analyses (mcas) reveal that measles (mv) diverged from rinderpest (rpv) c. 1000 c.e. This evidence, when conjoined with written accounts of non-Justinianic plagues in 569–570 and 986–988 and zoo-archaeological discoveries regarding early medieval mass bovine mortalities, suggests that a now-extinct morbillivirus, ancestral to mv and rpv, broke out episodically in the early Middle Ages, causing large mortalities in both species. Tentative diagnoses of an mv–rpv ancestor help to untangle early medieval accounts of human–bovine disease and facilitate an assessment of the consequences of the 569–570 and 986–988 plagues.

scholarly journals СЕРИЯ РАДИОУГЛЕРОДНЫХ ДАТ С РАЗНОВРЕМЕННОГО МОГИЛЬНИКА ЧУМЫШ-ПЕРЕКАТ В ЗАПАДНОМ ПРИСАЛАИРЬЕ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Fribus ◽  
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S. Grushin ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
The South ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates

The article presents an analysis of 6 radiocarbon dates from the Chumysh-Perekat Necropolis in the south of the Western Siberia. Neolithic burials dated from the VI – first half of the V Millennium BC. Ritual objects on the basis of radiocarbon dates are assigned to the second half of the I Millennium BC. Burials of the Early Middle Ages show a chronological range of the III–VII centuries AD by 2σ (95.4 %) and a narrower period of the V–VII centuries AD by 1σ (68.2 %).

scholarly journals On the Serbian-Bulgarian border in the 9th and the 10th centuries

2015 ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Predrag Komatina
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The People

The paper analyzes the information concerning the border between the Serbs and the Bulgarians in the 9th and the 10th centuries found in the work De administrando imperio by the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. It is made clear that there were no clearly established borderlines between the political entities in the Early Middle Ages, and that those political entities during that period functioned not on the basis of territorialy organized states, but of ethnic communities, whose authority rested upon the people, not the territory. The functioning of the early medieval Bulgarian Khanate is one of the best examples for that. Therefore, it is necessary that the information on the Serbian-Bulgarian border in the Porphyrogenitus? work be analyzed in a new and different light.

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