ПОСЕЛЕННЯ ЗОЛОТООРДИНСЬКОГО ЧАСУ НА СЕРЕДНЬОМУ ПСЛІ

Abstract

The article is devoted to the results of archaeological investigations in the territory of the middle course of the Psla in the area of the city of Sumy. As a result of the surveys, a number of settlements with materials from the Golden Horde period of the second half of the 13th - 14th centuries were discovered. They were located around a large lake, which in ancient times was part of the old river Psla and was connected to it by numerous channels. This area was rich in resources - the lake was a convenient place for farming, fishing, hunting and grazing. The ceramic material discovered in the settlements is typical for the second half of the 13th - 14th centuries and has wide analogies among the antiquities of the Dnieper Left Bank. At the same time, there is a small but distinct group of corollas with an arrow-shaped edge, which is not typical for this region. The unusual location of the settlement at a considerable distance from significant settlements was due to the changes that took place in ancient Russian society after 1239/1240. At this time, there was a gradual outflow of the population from the territory of the middle streams of the Psla and Vorskla to the Poseimya, but these territories remained important for farming in the next few centuries.