The Turbasly–Imenkovo Community: issues of studying
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https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2022.6.206.217Keywords:
archaeology, the cultures: Imenkovo, Turbasly, Bakhmutino, Nevolino; the peoples: Sarmatians, Scandinavians, Bjarmians.Abstract
In the medieval history of Eurasia, the antiquities of such a vast linguistic community as Sarmatian are still poorly illuminated. The Sarmatians, who previously occupied a wide territory, were pushed back to the borders of their settling as a result of the global military and political actions of the nomads of the steppes, primarily Turkic-speaking. So in the middle of the 6th century the large Sarmatian masses moved to the Ural-Volga region, to the places of their summer camps, where they settled down. Here they left numerous complexes of different cultures, that received different ethnic and cultural interpretations. The situation in study of the Sarmatians in the region changed when in the 80s of the XX century the sites of the Komintern complex (the hillfort, 3 unfortified settlements, 2 burial grounds) in the Spassky district of Tatarstan, that combine the main elements of the Turbasly and Imenkovo communities, were studied. Their population, clearly of the Sarmatian origin, was actively engaged in trade. The paper highlights only the Upper Volga river trade route, actively used by the traders of the Nevolino culture, who reached Scandinavia. It is likely that the legendary country of Bjarmaland, known from the Scandinavian sagas, and their inhabitants – "bjarmians" – are associated with the long-distance campaigns of the medieval Sarmatians of the studied region.
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