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IRANIAN TRIBES IN THE VOLGA-URAL STEPPES IN THE BRONZE AGE

History of Russia: from ancient times to 1917 , UDC: 94 (3) DOI: 10.25688/20-76-9105.2023.52.4.01

Authors

  • Alekseev Konstantin A. Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor

Annotation

The article examines the process of migration of speakers of Iranian dialects that formed the Andronovo cultural and historical community in the Urals. As a result of applying the method of complex analysis of archaeological, anthropological and paleogenetic data, it was possible to establish the chronological moment of the appearance of speakers of Iranian dialects on the Volga, as well as the starting points of their migration — the lower reaches of the Dnieper and Danube. The specificity of the burial rite (the position of the corpse on the right or left side), in combination with the accompanying flat-bottomed ceramics and the Mediterranean anthropological type of the buried, made it possible to determine the role of the Iranian ethnic component in the existence of the Yamnaya culture in the Volga-Ural interfluve, as well as in the formation of the Poltavka culture replacing.
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Indo-Europeans , Iranians , Poltavka culture , Yamnaya culture

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Alekseev, K. A. (2023). IRANIAN TRIBES IN THE VOLGA-URAL STEPPES IN THE BRONZE AGE Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 2023, №4 (52), 6. https://doi.org/10.25688/20-76-9105.2023.52.4.01
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