INTERREGIONAL RELATIONS BETWEEN SOUTH ASIA AND EASTERN EUROPE ON THE MATERIALS OF SHELL PRODUCTS (XXX CENTURY BC - VII CENTURY AD)

Abstract

Since the beginning of the III millennium BC, the population of the Hindustan peninsula has used the shells of Turbinella pyrum and Cypraea moneta mollusks for the production of various categories of inventory. From about the same time and up to the beginning of the XX century, these shells and objects made of them were delivered to other Asian regions. Since the VIII century BC, shells of Cypraea moneta began to arrive on the territory of Eastern Europe through the Caucasus, and Turbinella pyrum began to arrive from the turn of the era. The largest number of the latter were found in the funerary monuments of the Praudmurtian Mazunin culture of the III-V centuries AD in the Kama region (Tarasovsky, Izhevsk, Nyrgyndinsky I and other burial grounds). However, in the IV-V centuries, the arrival of Turbinella pyrum shells on the territory of Eastern Europe ceased.