Islanova I.V.

Key words: Dyakovo archaeological culture, Early and Late Dyakovo antiquities, Upper Volga.

One hundred year period has not shortened the list of the questions connected with the chronology of the Dyakovo type settlements, their territories and the existence of local variants. On the basis of the materials the parts of the Volgo-Baltic Waterway, the basins of Upper Volga and Upper Msta can be included in the Dyakovo area. The opinion on the absence of one Dyakovo archaeological culture existed over 1000 years ago is the most argued. At the end of the first millennium BC under the powerful impulse (and possibly the flow of a new population) from the Don river region the early Dyakovo massif has been divided and transformed gradually.

It is justified to use the term “Dyakovo” cultural-archaeological community” for the common area. While studying specified territories and periods, it is necessary to distinguish the early Dyakovo (7th/6th – 3rd/2nd cc. BC) and the late Dyakovo (1st c. BC – 6th/7th cc. AD) antiquities and cultural-chronological groups of sites in them. Such groups of Beseda type, Varvarina Mount type and also the settlements with ceramics ornamented on the edge of rim, the settlements with ceramics of the Moshchinsk circle are identified on the territory of the Upper Povolzhye and Valday.