Кузькинский мордовский могильник конца XIII—XIV в.: к истории населения правобережья Самарского Поволжья в эпоху Золотой Орды
Kuzkino Mordovian Burial Ground of the Late 13th—14th Centuries: toward the history of the population of the right bank of the Samara Volga region in the Golden Horde era

Author(s): Dmitriy A. Stashenkov
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Middle Volga; Golden Horde; Mordovian; burial ground; funerary rite
Summary/Abstract: The article addresses studies on the burial ground of the late 13th—14th century in the Volga region near Samara. The funerary rite and objects from 16 burials find analogies in the Muranka, Barbashinsky, and Usinsky burial grounds, associated mainly with the Mordovian groups. The appearance of large Mordovian burial grounds in the Middle Volga region is conditioned by the policy of economic development of the Volga region, pursued by the Golden Horde administration. The chronological framework of the archaeological objects studied in the region with the Mordovian ethno-cultural component — late 13th — middle of the 14th centuries. There is no evidence to support the existence of these sites after 1360s — the beginning of the “Great troubles” period in the Horde.

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