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Иванов В.А.
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EARLY IRON AGE AND MEDIEVAL SITES IN THE SOUTHERN URAL REGION: 
CONTEXT OF SOURCES (FOREST AND FOREST-STEPPE)
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V.A. Ivanov 
The author examines the geography of settlements of the early Iron Age fi nale (Glyadenovo 
culture) - early medieval period (second half of the I Millennium BC: Mazuninо/Bahmutino, 
Lomovatovo, Nevolino, Polom/Cheptza, Kushnarenkovo/Karayakupovo cultures) in the 
Kama River and the Cis-Ural regions. As shown by statistics collected through archaeological 
studies on these settlements, the proportion of such sites among the general masses of sites 
from published maps is very small. That, in turn, questions a number of aspects related to the 
characteristics of these crops. Firstly, the time these settlements functioned: their density, as 
shown on the published maps, their distribution per square unit, does not allow us to think 
that these settlements could exist simultaneously. Second, identifi cation of various local-
territorial variations of these archaeological cultures, in the context when settlements are 
not suffi ciently and equally studied, will inevitably be just a formality and will hardly refl ect 
the real cultural-historical situation in the region during the studied period. In view of the 
above, the author suggests scaling-up the approach used to study the Polom/Cheptza culture 
and developed by M.G. Ivanova and her colleagues to cover the whole territory of the Kama 
and Cis-Ural regions. Otherwise, the author maintains that any further study of this era in 
the region is doomed to generation of various meta-constructions and meta-histories to the 
detriment of archaeology as a source-based science.

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