Keywords: archaeology, Southern Cis-Ural region, Kama region, early Iron Age, early
Middle Ages, cultures: Mazunino, Lomovatovo, Nevolino, Polom, Kushnarenkovo, hillfort,
settlement, local variations, chronology, research methods.
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The work was supported by the Russian Fund for Humanities “Comparative Statistic
Characteristics of the Early Iron Age Archaeological Cultures in the Kama and Cis-Ural
Regions” Project no. 16-31-00010