Ananyino culture
The Ananyino culture is an
It is located in the territory of the Middle
In the Volga and Lower Kama areas the traces of the Ananyino Culture fade in the 6th century BCE, in other areas in the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE.
Archeological monuments
Unfortified settlements, fortresses and burials have been found. In the settlements and fortresses the remains of surface timber dwellings (10×5 m - 12×4 м) were found. In the Konetsgor settlement long houses divided into sections with hearths located on their longitudinal axis were found. The population was engaged in cattle breeding and agriculture, as well as hunting and fishing. Well developed were both iron and nonferrous metallurgy, bronze casting and forging, weaving, spinning, bone and leatherwork, and pottery. Typical ceramics are round-bottomed with indented and rope decorations. In the settlements are many bone utensils, mainly for hunting and fishing, like arrowheads of various forms, harpoons, mattock tips.
The burial sites are without mounds and sometimes very extensive. The older Akhmylov cemetery contained more than 1100 burials. The earliest of them had stone
The Ananyino culture was greatly influenced by the Colchian-Koban cultures of the Caucasus region, the Scythians, and the eastern nomadic cultures of the Eurasian steppes. Especially significant were the links of the Ananyino people with the Caucasus cultures, represented by numerous imported products. It was determined that technological methods for iron processing ascend to the Caucasian traditions.
Language
The Ananyino people apparently belonged to the
References
- ^ "Археология Среднего Поволжья". old.kpfu.ru. Archived from the original on 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
Literature
- Zbrueva A.V. "History of the Kama Population in the Ananian Epoch", Moscow, 1952.
- Halikov A.H. "Volga-Kama in the beginning of the Early Iron Epoch", Moscow, 1977.
- Archeology of Southern Urals. Sterlitamak, 1993.
- Markov V.N. "Ananian problem (some results and objectives of its resolution)" // Monuments of Volga-Kama ancient history. Kazan, 1994.