Archaeological Evidence of Migration from the Southern Taiga of Western Siberia to the Urals in the Early Middle Ages: The Vodennikovo-1 Cemetery
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...
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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. |
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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Foundation “For Russian Language and Culture in Hungary”, Projects No. 19-59-23006 and 20-49-720001. |
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Archaeological Evidence of Migration from the Southern Taiga of Western Siberia to the Urals in the Early Middle Ages: The Vodennikovo-1 Cemetery |
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Archaeological Evidence of Migration from the Southern Taiga of Western Siberia to the Urals in the Early Middle Ages: The Vodennikovo-1 Cemetery |
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Archaeological Evidence of Migration from the Southern Taiga of Western Siberia to the Urals in the Early Middle Ages: The Vodennikovo-1 Cemetery |
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https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1333/817 Arslanova F.K. 1983 K voprosu o svyazyakh plemen Pavlodarskogo Priirtyshya s naseleniyem Zapadnoy Sibiri (VII–XI vv.). In Etnokulturniye protsessy v Zapadnoy Sibiri. Tomsk: Izd. Tom. Gos. Univ., pp. 105–117. Balogh C. 2016 A Mezőszilas type pendant from grave 14 of the Mélykút–Sánc-dűlő cemetery. In Thesaurus Avarorum: Régészeti tanulmányok Garam Éva tiszteletére, T. Vida (ed.). Budapest: ELTE, pp. 269–286. Botalov S.G., Tideman E.V., Lukinykh A.A., Vokhmentsev M.P. 2008 Noviye materialy issledovaniya Bolshogo Bakalskogo gorodishcha. In Problemy bakalskoi kultury: Materialy nauch.- prakt. seminara po problemam bakalskoy kultury. Chelyabinsk: Rifei, pp. 6–41. Chernetsov V.N. 1957 Nizhneye Priobye v I tysyacheletii nashey ery: Obzor i klassifi katsiya materiala. In Kultura drevnikh plemen Priuralya i Zapadnoy Sibiri. Moscow: Izd. AN SSSR, pp. 136–245. (MIA; No. 58). Chindina L.A. 1991 Istoriya Srednego Priobya v epokhu rannego srednevekovya. Tomsk: Izd. Tom. Gos. Univ. Gavrilova A.A. 1965 Mogilnik Kudyrge kak istochnik po istorii altaiskikh plemen. Moscow, Leningrad: Izd. AN SSSR. Gavritukhin I.O. 1996 K izucheniyu remennykh garnitur Povolzhya VI–VII vv. In Kultury Yevraziyskikh stepey vtoroy poloviny I tysyacheletiya n.e. Samara: Samar. Gos. Ped. Inst., pp. 115–134. Gening V.F. 1972 Yuzhnoye Priuralye v III–VII vv. In Problemy arkheologii i drevney istorii ugrov. Moscow: Nauka, pp. 221–295. Gening V.F., Zdanovich S.Y. 1987 Likhachevskiy mogilnik na r. Ishim – pamyatnik potchevashskoy kultury VI–VIII vv. n.e. In Ranniy zhelezniy vek i srednevekovye Uralo-Irtyshskogo mezhdurechya. Chelyabinsk: Chelyab. Gos. Univ., pp. 119–133. Goldina E.V. 2010 Busy mogilnikov nevolinskoy kultury (konets IV–IX vv.). Izhevsk: Udm. Gos. Univ. Goldina R.D. 2012 Nevolinskiy mogilnik VII–IX vv. v Permskom Preduralye. Izhevsk: Udm. Gos. Univ. (Materialy i issledovaniya Kamsko-Vyatskoy arkheologicheskoy ekspeditsii; vol. 21). Goldina R.D., Perevozchikova S.A., Goldina E.V. 2018 Mogilnik VI–IX vv. u d. Verh-Saya v Kungurskoy lesostepi. Izhevsk: Udm. Gos. Univ. (Materialy i issledovaniya Kamsko-Vyatskoy arkheologicheskoi ekspeditsii; vol. 19). Ilyushina V.V. 2009 Potchevashskiye pogrebeniya iz gruntovogo mogilnika Vikulovskoye kladbishche. Vestnik arkheologii, antropologii i etnografi i, No. 10: 74–83. Ivanov A.G. 1997 Etnokulturniye i ekonomicheskiye svyazi naseleniya basseina r. Cheptsy v epokhu srednevekovya. Izhevsk: UIIYaL UrO RAN. Ivanov V.A. 1999 Drevniye ugro-madyary v Vostochnoy Yevrope. Ufa: Gilem. Kazakov E.P. 1992 Kultura ranney Volzhskoy Bolgarii. Moscow: Nauka. Kenk R. 1982 Früh- und hochmittelalterliche Gräber von Kudyrge im Altai: Nach der Arbeit von A.A. Gavrilova. München: Verlag C.H. Beck. Khalikova E.A., Khalikov A.K. 2018 Ranniye vengry na Kame i Urale (Bolshe-Tiganskiy mogilnik). Kazan: Fen. 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Rafi kova T.N., Matveeva N.P., Berlina S.V. 2008 Keramicheskiye kompleksy rannego zheleznogo veka Ust-Tersyukskogo gorodishcha. In AB ORIGINE: Arkheol.-etnogr. sb., iss. 2. Tyumen: Tri T, pp. 85–114. Smagulov T.N. 2006 Pamyatniki potchevashskogo tipa v Kazakhstanskom Priirtyshye. Izvestiya NAN RK. Seriya obshhestv. nauk, iss. 1: 85–91. Troitskaya T.N., Novikov A.V. 1998 Verkhneobskaya kultura v Novosibirskom Priobye. Novosibirsk: Nauka. Viktorova V.D. 2008 Drevniye ugry v lesakh Urala: (Stranitsy ranney istorii mansi). Yekaterinburg: Kvadrat. Zelenkov A.S. 2019 O statuse psevdokushnarenkovskoy keramiki v arkheologicheskom kontekste Zapadnoy Sibiri rannego srednevekovya. In AB ORIGINE: Arkheol.-etnogr. sb., iss. 11. Tyumen: Izd. Tyum. Gos. Univ., pp. 24–44. https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1333 doi:10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.4.091-099 |
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ftjarchaeology:oai:oai.nsc.elpub.ru:article/1333 2024-09-15T18:38:36+00:00 Archaeological Evidence of Migration from the Southern Taiga of Western Siberia to the Urals in the Early Middle Ages: The Vodennikovo-1 Cemetery N. P. Matveeva E. A. Tretyakov A. S. Zelenkov This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Foundation “For Russian Language and Culture in Hungary”, Projects No. 19-59-23006 and 20-49-720001. 2022-01-04 application/pdf https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1333 https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.4.091-099 eng eng IAET SB RAS https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1333/817 Arslanova F.K. 1983 K voprosu o svyazyakh plemen Pavlodarskogo Priirtyshya s naseleniyem Zapadnoy Sibiri (VII–XI vv.). In Etnokulturniye protsessy v Zapadnoy Sibiri. Tomsk: Izd. Tom. Gos. Univ., pp. 105–117. Balogh C. 2016 A Mezőszilas type pendant from grave 14 of the Mélykút–Sánc-dűlő cemetery. In Thesaurus Avarorum: Régészeti tanulmányok Garam Éva tiszteletére, T. Vida (ed.). Budapest: ELTE, pp. 269–286. Botalov S.G., Tideman E.V., Lukinykh A.A., Vokhmentsev M.P. 2008 Noviye materialy issledovaniya Bolshogo Bakalskogo gorodishcha. In Problemy bakalskoi kultury: Materialy nauch.- prakt. seminara po problemam bakalskoy kultury. Chelyabinsk: Rifei, pp. 6–41. Chernetsov V.N. 1957 Nizhneye Priobye v I tysyacheletii nashey ery: Obzor i klassifi katsiya materiala. In Kultura drevnikh plemen Priuralya i Zapadnoy Sibiri. Moscow: Izd. AN SSSR, pp. 136–245. (MIA; No. 58). Chindina L.A. 1991 Istoriya Srednego Priobya v epokhu rannego srednevekovya. Tomsk: Izd. Tom. Gos. Univ. Gavrilova A.A. 1965 Mogilnik Kudyrge kak istochnik po istorii altaiskikh plemen. Moscow, Leningrad: Izd. AN SSSR. Gavritukhin I.O. 1996 K izucheniyu remennykh garnitur Povolzhya VI–VII vv. In Kultury Yevraziyskikh stepey vtoroy poloviny I tysyacheletiya n.e. Samara: Samar. Gos. Ped. Inst., pp. 115–134. Gening V.F. 1972 Yuzhnoye Priuralye v III–VII vv. In Problemy arkheologii i drevney istorii ugrov. Moscow: Nauka, pp. 221–295. Gening V.F., Zdanovich S.Y. 1987 Likhachevskiy mogilnik na r. Ishim – pamyatnik potchevashskoy kultury VI–VIII vv. n.e. In Ranniy zhelezniy vek i srednevekovye Uralo-Irtyshskogo mezhdurechya. Chelyabinsk: Chelyab. Gos. Univ., pp. 119–133. Goldina E.V. 2010 Busy mogilnikov nevolinskoy kultury (konets IV–IX vv.). Izhevsk: Udm. Gos. Univ. Goldina R.D. 2012 Nevolinskiy mogilnik VII–IX vv. v Permskom Preduralye. Izhevsk: Udm. Gos. Univ. (Materialy i issledovaniya Kamsko-Vyatskoy arkheologicheskoy ekspeditsii; vol. 21). Goldina R.D., Perevozchikova S.A., Goldina E.V. 2018 Mogilnik VI–IX vv. u d. Verh-Saya v Kungurskoy lesostepi. Izhevsk: Udm. Gos. Univ. (Materialy i issledovaniya Kamsko-Vyatskoy arkheologicheskoi ekspeditsii; vol. 19). Ilyushina V.V. 2009 Potchevashskiye pogrebeniya iz gruntovogo mogilnika Vikulovskoye kladbishche. Vestnik arkheologii, antropologii i etnografi i, No. 10: 74–83. Ivanov A.G. 1997 Etnokulturniye i ekonomicheskiye svyazi naseleniya basseina r. Cheptsy v epokhu srednevekovya. Izhevsk: UIIYaL UrO RAN. Ivanov V.A. 1999 Drevniye ugro-madyary v Vostochnoy Yevrope. Ufa: Gilem. Kazakov E.P. 1992 Kultura ranney Volzhskoy Bolgarii. Moscow: Nauka. Kenk R. 1982 Früh- und hochmittelalterliche Gräber von Kudyrge im Altai: Nach der Arbeit von A.A. Gavrilova. München: Verlag C.H. Beck. Khalikova E.A., Khalikov A.K. 2018 Ranniye vengry na Kame i Urale (Bolshe-Tiganskiy mogilnik). Kazan: Fen. (Arkheologiya yevraziyskikh stepey; iss. 25). Khelimsky E.A. 1982 Drevneishiye vengersko-samodiyskiye yazykoviye paralleli. Moscow: Nauka. Klyashtorny S.G., Savinov D.G. 2005 Stepniye imperii drevney Yevrazii. St. Petersburg: Sankt-Peterb. Gos. Univ. Kostomarova Y.V. 2007 Pogrebeniye srednevekovogo vremeni s Khripunovskogo mogilnika. In AB ORIGINE: Problemy genezisa kultur Sibiri: [Arkheol.-etnogr. Sb.], iss. 1. Tyumen: Vektor Buk, pp. 53–63. Maslyuzhenko D.N., Shilov S.N., Khavrin S.V. 2011 Rannesrednevekoviy mogilnik Ust-Suerskoye-1 v lesostepnom Pritobolye. In AB ORIGINE: Arkheol.-etnogr. sb., iss. 3. Tyumen: Izd. Tyum. Gos. Univ., pp. 72–86. Matveeva G.I. 2007 O kulturnom i khronologicheskom sootnoshenii pamyatnikov kushnarenkovskogo i karayakupovskogo tipov. In Srednevekovaya arkheologiya Yevraziyskikh stepey, vol. II. Samara: Samar. Gos. Ped. Inst., pp. 75–86. Matveeva N.P. 2016 Zapadnaya Sibir v epokhu Velikogo pereseleniya narodov. Tyumen: Izd. Tyum. Gos. Univ. Matveeva N.P. 2019 Nekotoriye problemy izucheniya srednevekovoy arkheologii lesostepnoy zony Priuralya i Zauralya v svete formirovaniya madyar. In AB ORIGINE: Arkheol.-etnogr. sb., iss. 11. Tyumen: Izd. Tyum. Gos. Univ., pp. 44–60. Matveeva N.P., Berlina S.V., Rafi kova T.N. 2008 Kolovskoye gorodishche. Novosibirsk: Nauka. Mazhitov N.A. 1977 Yuzhniy Ural v VII–XIV vv. Moscow: Nauka. Mazhitov N.A. 1981 Kurgany Yuzhnogo Urala VIII–XII vv. Moscow: Nauka. Mogilnikov V.A. 1987 Ugry i samodiytsy Urala i Zapadnoy Sibiri. In Finno-ugry i balty v epokhu srednevekovya. Moscow: Nauka, pp. 163–235. (Arkheologiya SSSR). Mogilnikov V.A., Konikov B.A. 1983 Mogilnik potchevashskoy kultury v Srednem Priirtyshye. Sovetskaya arkheologiya, No. 2: 162–182. Molodin V.I., Solovyev A.I. 2004 Pamyatnik Sopka-2 na reke Omi. Vol. 2: Kulturnokhronologicheskiy analiz pogrebalnykh kompleksov epokhi srednevekovya. Novosibirsk: Izd. IAET SO RAN. Rafi kova T.N., Matveeva N.P., Berlina S.V. 2008 Keramicheskiye kompleksy rannego zheleznogo veka Ust-Tersyukskogo gorodishcha. In AB ORIGINE: Arkheol.-etnogr. sb., iss. 2. Tyumen: Tri T, pp. 85–114. Smagulov T.N. 2006 Pamyatniki potchevashskogo tipa v Kazakhstanskom Priirtyshye. Izvestiya NAN RK. Seriya obshhestv. nauk, iss. 1: 85–91. Troitskaya T.N., Novikov A.V. 1998 Verkhneobskaya kultura v Novosibirskom Priobye. Novosibirsk: Nauka. Viktorova V.D. 2008 Drevniye ugry v lesakh Urala: (Stranitsy ranney istorii mansi). Yekaterinburg: Kvadrat. Zelenkov A.S. 2019 O statuse psevdokushnarenkovskoy keramiki v arkheologicheskom kontekste Zapadnoy Sibiri rannego srednevekovya. In AB ORIGINE: Arkheol.-etnogr. sb., iss. 11. Tyumen: Izd. Tyum. Gos. Univ., pp. 24–44. https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1333 doi:10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.4.091-099 Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access). Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia; Vol 49, No 4 (2021); 91-99 Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии; Vol 49, No 4 (2021); 91-99 1563-0110 burial complexes Trans-Urals Early Middle Ages Bakalskaya culture Potchevash culture info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2022 ftjarchaeology https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.4.091-099 2024-07-11T03:04:13Z 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. 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