Pavel R. Kholoshin
Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: Paul.R.Kho@yandex.ru

Keywords: Muroma, the Volga Finns, burial rite, ceramics, vessel shapes, historical and cultural approach.

The article presents the results of studying the shapes of clay vessels from the Muroma tribe burials of the Podbolotyevsky burial ground of the 7th – 11th centuries. The study of vessel shapes was conducted within the framework of the historical and cultural approach, including the analysis of the overall proportionality, the natural structure and volume of the vessels. To determine the dynamics of changes in the cultural traditions of the population that left the burial ground, planigraphic groups of burials, differing in cultural and chronological terms, were considered. As a result, it was possible to identify the traditions that prevailed among Muroma potters before the beginning of regular contacts with the alien population of Ancient Rus and the traditions introduced by the alien population, as well as to trace the features of mixing of these traditions at the late stage of the burial ground functioning.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630004117-7