Abstract

The author considers the problem of the contacts the population of the middle Kama made with the Sarmatians of Southern Ural on the basis of an analysis оf such items as belt sets, and some items of horse equipment and weap-onsfrom thefinds of graves of early part of Mokino cemetery in the Kama area (Perm region, Russia). The complex-es belong to the3dcenturyAD. The finds are investigated consideringthe background of numerous analogies from Kama area cultures and Sarmatian complexes. From this time,the said links substantially define the shape of some parts of material culture of population from the Kama area. The complexes of the early part of the Mokino burial groundand their historical and cultural contextsillustrate the complex socio-economic processes that took place in the region at the late stage of the Glyadenovo culture. During this period, migration processes (both internal local migrations and external ones) were active, associated with changes in climatic conditions and the events of the be-ginning of the Great Migration of Peoplesepoch. The pattern of the inventory sets in the burials of the Mokino burial ground helps to suggestthat they arrived in the Kama region in assembled form, in a place with their bearers, and were not form trade import. The appearance of such complexes may be associated with the penetration of small groups of steppe population into the Kama region,which, once in the region, integrated into local communities and took a dominant role in them. New economic ties were built characterized by the full inclusion of the territory of the Kama region intothe system of trade relations in Eastern Europe. Mastering the brass smelting of local population becamea new level of the development of non-ferrous metallurgy in the region

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