Medieval clayware as a determiner of the ethnocultural composition of the population

Malvina Stanislavovna Kuptsova

doi:10.5377/nexo.v34i01.11298

Abstract

This article examines the medieval utensils found on the territory of the medieval towns of Volga, Bulgaria. Statistical analysis, technical and technological analysis is carried out. Based on the analysis of material materials, ethnocultural groups are linked, their interaction, and their influence on the local Bulgarian population. Volga Bulgaria is a major state transformation on the territory of medieval Eastern Europe, which included a large number of immigrants, one of which, in this case, the Ugric component, will be considered in the article.

Highlights

The 10th century, marked for the Volga region by the fall of the Khazar Kaganate, and the formation of a new centralized state of Volga Bulgaria on the territory of the Volga region, set in motion many peoples, including a large number of the Ugric-speaking population, who actively began to settle and contact the local Bulgarian population (Akhter, 2017; Lee, 2018)
An example of this is the presence of a large percentage of medieval, or, as it is customary to call, "traditional" ceramics on Volga Bulgaria's monuments, which is a vivid indicator of ethnocultural processes throughout the Volga region (Cywa & Wacnik, 2020)
Khlebnikova "Ceramics of the monuments of Volga Bulgaria" (Khlebnikova, 1984), work is underway to classify all medieval utensils found on the monuments of Volga Bulgaria; this work will be the main bias in the classification of ceramics on the sites under consideration

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Introduction

The 10th century, marked for the Volga region by the fall of the Khazar Kaganate, and the formation of a new centralized state of Volga Bulgaria on the territory of the Volga region, set in motion many peoples, including a large number of the Ugric-speaking population, who actively began to settle and contact the local Bulgarian population (Akhter, 2017; Lee, 2018). We see the process of interaction directly in the material culture itself when among the large abundance of good quality materials of Bulgarian artisans, there are objects not typical for local production. An example of this is the presence of a large percentage of medieval, or, as it is customary to call, "traditional" ceramics on Volga Bulgaria's monuments, which is a vivid indicator of ethnocultural processes throughout the Volga region (Cywa & Wacnik, 2020). It can create a solid foundation for the reconstruction of ancient societies' history, their development in time, the continuity of generations, cantaks among themselves, and the influence of ethnocultural groups on each other (Grömer et al, 2017; Laha et al, 2020)

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