Cultural Composition of the Muroma Based on the Study of the Pottery Traditions
https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2022-21-7-106-117
Abstract
Purpose. To reveal the cultural composition of the Muroma tribe at different stages of its history, two aspects of research of the pottery were included: the traditions of making specific shapes and preparation of pottery paste.
Results. Analysis of the shapes of 679 vessels from the Muroma burial grounds allowed us to distinguish three traditions of shaping. The first shape dominates at the early and middle stages and represents the original cultural core of the Muroma. The second shape marks the spread of the population of another culture in the Muroma area. The analysis of the pottery pastes of 137 vessels from Podbolotevo burial ground has shown that Muroma pottery developed as a result of contacts between potters with different skills, such as tempering clay (C) with crushed rock (CR) and chamotte (Ch). For Muroma of a middle stage such mixed recipe of pottery paste as C + CR + Ch + Org is typical. At the later stage, the tradition of C + Ch + Org begins to dominate in the Muroma, and the addition of crushed rock almost disappears. A comparison of the data on the shapes of the vessels and the pottery pastes from which they were made distinguished a connection between the first shape tradition and the C + CR + Ch + Org recipe, and the second tradition – with the C + Ch + Org recipe.
Conclusion. Both aspects of pottery technology allow reconstruct a whole picture of a quick change in the Muroma cultural composition at the late stage. This change was associated with the influx of the new population.
Keywords
The Muroma,
Lower Oka,
early Middle Ages,
pottery traditions,
shapes of vessels,
technological analysis,
historical and cultural approach
Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by RFBR, project no. 19-39-90001
About the Author
P. R. Kholoshin
Paleoethnology Research Center; Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pavel R. Kholoshin, Candidate of Sciences (History)
Moscow
References
1. Bejlekchi V. V. Drevnosti Nizhnego Pooch'ya (pogrebal'nyj obryad i poseleniya letopisnoj muromy) [Antiquities of the Lower Oka (funeral rites and settlements of the chronicle Muroma)]. Manual. Moscow, MPSI Press, 2005, 275 p. (in Russ.)
2. Bobrinsky A. A. O metodike izucheniya form glinyanoj posudy iz arkheologicheskikh raskopok [On the methodology of studying the forms of pottery from archaeological excavations]. In: Kul'tury Vostochnoj Evropy I tysyacheletiya [Cultures of Eastern Europe in the first millennium]. Kuybyshev, 1986, pp. 137–157. (in Russ.)
3. Bobrinsky A. A. (ed.). Aktual'nye problemy izucheniya drevnego goncharstva [Current problems in the study of ancient pottery]. Collective monograph. Samara: SamSPU Press, 1999, 233 p. (in Russ.)
4. Bobrinsky A. A. Goncharstvo Vostochnoi Evropy. Istochniki i metody izucheniya [Pottery-making of Eastern Europe. Sources and methods of study]. Moscow, Nauka, 1978, 272 p. (in Russ.)
5. Efimenko P. P. K istorii zapadnogo Povolzh'ya v pervom tysyacheletii n. e. po arkheologicheskim istochnikam [On the History of the Western Volga Region in the First Millennium AD According to Archaeological Sources]. Sovetskaya arkheologiya [Soviet Archaeology], 1937, no. 2, pp. 39–58. (in Russ.)
6. Golubeva L. A. Ves'. Muroma. Mordva. In: Sedov V. V. (ed.). Finno-ugry i balty v epokhu Srednevekov'ya [Finno-Ugrians and Balts in the Middle Ages]. Moscow, Nauka, 1987, pp. 52–107. (in Russ.) (Archaeology of the USSR)
7. Goryunova E. I. Etnicheskaya istoriya Volgo-Okskogo mezhdurech'ya [Ethnic history of the Volga-Oka basin]. Moscow, AS USSR Publ., 1961, 167 p. (in Russ.) (Materials and research on the archaeology of the USSR, № 94)
8. Grishakov V. V., Zeleneev Yu. A. Muroma VII–XI vv. [Muroma in the 7th – 11th centuries]. Manual. Joshkar-Ola, MarSU Press, 1990, 74 p. (in Russ.)
9. Grishakov V. V. Keramika finno-ugorskikh plemen pravoberezh'ya Volgi v epokhu rannego Srednevekov'ya [Ceramics of the Finno-Ugric tribes of the Right Bank of the Volga in the Early Middle Ages]. Joshkar-Ola, MarSU Press, 1993, 204 p. (in Russ.)
10. Kholoshin P. R. Formy sosudov Malyshevskogo mogil'nika [Vessel shapes from the Malyshevo burial ground]. Kratkie soobshcheniya Instituta arkheologii [Brief communications of the Institute of Archaeology], 2020, vol. 258, pp. 260–277. (in Russ.)
11. Kholoshin P. R. Goncharnye traditsii muromy po materialam mogil'nikov Nizhnego Pooch'ya VI– XI vv. [Pottery traditions of the Muroma based on materials from burial grounds in the Lower Oka of the 6th – 11th centuries]. Cand. Hist. Sci. Diss. Moscow, IA RAS, 2020, 250 p. (in Russ.)
12. Kholoshin P. R. Planigraficheskij i khronologicheskij analiz form glinyanykh sosudov Podbolot'evskogo mogil'nika [Planigraphic and chronological analysis of the shapes of clay vessels from the Podbolot'ev burial ground]. Rossijskaya arkheologiya [Russian Archaeology], 2019, no. 1, pp. 60–72. (in Russ.)
13. Leontyev A. E. Territoriya letopisnoj muromy po arkheologicheskim dannym [Territory of the annalistic Muroma according to archaeological data]. In: Issledovaniya P. D. Stepanova i etnokul'turnye protsessy drevnosti i sovremennosti [P. D. Stepanov’s research and ethno-cultural processes of antiquity and modernity]. Saransk, 1998, pp. 14–17. (in Russ.)
14. Ryabinin E. A. Finno-ugorskie plemena v sostave Drevnej Rusi [Finno-Ugric tribes within Old Russia]. St. Petersburg, SPbSU Press, 1997, 260 p. (in Russ.)
15. Smirnov Yu. M. (ed.). Istoriya Muroma i muromskogo kraya s drevnejshikh vremen do kontsa dvadtsatogo veka [History of Murom and the Murom region from ancient times to the end of the twentieth century]. Textbook. Murom, 2001, 427 p. (in Russ.)
16. Tsetlin Yu. B. Drevnyaya keramika. Teoriya i metody istoriko-kul'turnogo podhoda [Ancient Ceramics. Theory and methods of historical and cultural approach]. Moscow, IA RAS Publ., 2012, 384 p. (in Russ.)
17. Tsetlin Yu. B. Keramika. Ponyatiya i terminy istoriko-kul'turnogo podhoda [Ceramics. Concepts and terms of the historical and cultural approach]. Moscow, IA RAS Publ., 2017, 346 p. (in Russ.)
18. Tsetlin Yu. B. (ed.). Formy glinyanykh sosudov kak ob"ekt izucheniya. Istoriko-kul'turnyj podkhod [Shapes of clay vessels as an object of study. Historical and cultural approach]. Moscow, IA RAS Publ., 2018, 252 p. (in Russ.)
19. Zeleneev Yu. A. Gruntovye mogil'niki volzhskikh finnov i nekotorye problemy etnicheskoj istorii [The Burial Grounds of Volga Finns and Some Problems of Ethnic History]. In: Etnogenez i etnicheskaya istoriya marijtsev. Arkheologiya i etnografiya Marijskogo kraya [Ethnogenesis and Ethnic History of Mari People. Archaeology and Ethnography of the Mari Region]. Joshkar-Ola, 1988, vol. 14, pp. 79–86. (in Russ.)
20. Zelentsova O. V., Milovanov S. I. O planirovke Podbolot'evskogo mogil'nika [About the Layout of the Podbolotyevsky Burial Ground]. In: Zelentsova O. V. (ed.). Finno-ugorskie drevnosti vtoroj poloviny I – nachala II tysyacheletiya n. e. Materialy nauchnogo seminara “Podbolot'evskij mogil'nik: 100 let issledovanij” [Finno-Ugric Antiquities of the Second Half of the I – Beginning Of The II Millennium AD. Materials of the Scientific Seminar “The Podbolotyevsky Burial Ground: 100 Years of Research”]. Moscow, IA RAS Publ., 2021, pp. 12–28. (in Russ.)
Review
For citations:
Kholoshin P.R. Cultural Composition of the Muroma Based on the Study of the Pottery Traditions. Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology. 2022;21(7):106-117. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2022-21-7-106-117
Views:
166
Email this article 