STUDIES OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN THE MIDDLE AND LOWER SURA REGION AS A PART OF THE WORK OF THE INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION IN 2015−2019
Keywords:
archaeology, Middle Volga, Sura River region, Bronze Age, period of Roman infl uences, Migration period, sites of Chirki-Balanovo type, Andreevka-Piseraly type, Sendimirkino-Tautovo type, Kiev culture, Imen’kovo cultureAbstract
The paper summarizes the preliminary results of the work of the international archaeological expedition in 2015−2019, held in the middle reaches of the Sura River. The most part of the investigation was carried out in the valley of the Sura between village Ivankovo-Lenino Chuvashia) and town Surskoye (Ulyanovsk Region). In this area, several new archaeological sites of the 1st millennium CE were discovered and the excavations of the “Sholm” hillfort of Ivankovo-Lenino and the Sara-1 settlement were carried out as well as several sections of coastal exposures of the Sura River were investigated. The sections allowed to reconstruct the dynamics of climatic changes and stages of anthropogenic development of the region in prehistory and the Middle Ages. The study focused primarily on sites of the 0-700 CE, to multiply data to reconstruct historical and cultural dynamics from the time of the Andreevka-Piseraly and Sendimirkino-Tautovo types to the period of the introduction of the Kiev culture artefacts to the region and, later, the formation and development of the Imen'kovo culture. In the course of the work, several dwellingpits were studied and a remarkable amount of ceramic sherds and artefacts were collected. Studies also spotted the light on earlier eras: in the lower layers of the Bolshie Algashi and Ivankovo-Lenino hillforts, the cultural layer attributed to the mixed type of the Balanovo-Chirki dated back to the Middle Bronze Age was studied. A large settlement of the Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal principality dated to the 14th-15th centuries was localized also, being mentioned in a list of written sources as "Sara" or "Sara the Great".
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