Open AccessMsta-Mologa group of antiquities of the mid-1st millennium AD at the Volga-Baltic watershed
Author(s) -
Inna Vasilievna Islanova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
arheologičeskie vesti
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1817-6976
DOI - 10.31600/1817-6976-2020-28-249-257
Subject(s) - pottery , volga region , archaeology , massif , geography , population , human settlement , settlement (finance) , tributary , group (periodic table) , watershed , ancient history , history , demography , cartography , chemistry , organic chemistry , machine learning , sociology , world wide web , computer science , payment
A separate cultural and chronological Msta-Mologa group of sites of the mid-1st millennium AD was defined through the available archaeological evidence, in the area of the Volga-Baltic watershed. Pottery complexes from two regularly investigated settlement-sites — Troitsa 1 and Ovsishche 1, are the main markers of this group. The mass material is similar to the pottery distributed in the Moshchiny culture and late Dyakovo settlements in the Upper Volga region. The initial territory of the new population, according to the evidence of pottery and other finds, possibly was that of the basin of the Upper Mologa (left tributary of the Volga). The presence of derivatives of the pottery of the Msta- Mologa group in the burial monuments of the culture of Pskov long barrows in this region suggests that the population of the group under consideration dissolved in the massif of that early mediaeval culture.