Misplaced Pages

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Sawyer777 (talk | contribs) at 12:31, 23 January 2025 (start - will add more). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The Azelino culture is an archaeological culture associated with the Volga region of Russia. They were located in the western part of the Lower Kama and the Vyatka regions, and were descendants of the Pjanobor culture.

There are around 50 Azelino archaeological sites, primarily consisting of burial grounds. Azelino sites are located along major rivers, and are characterized by specialized arrowheads, apiculture knives, and burials of dogs and riding horses. The Azelino population largely relied on forest resources.

V. F. Gening identified the Azelino culture in 1963, and theorized that the Pjanobor culture had migrated to the Vyatka valley in the 3rd century AD. He defined the Azelino culture as the late Pjanobor sites of the 3rd–5th centuries. Comingling of the Azelino with the existing populations in the Vyatka area, descendents of the Ananyino and perhaps Gorodets cultures, eventually resulted in the ethnogenesis of the Meadow Mari people. The precise role of the Azelino, Gorodets, and Ananyino cultures in Mari ethnogenesis has been subject to academic debate.

Between the 2nd and 4th centuries, the Late Sarmatians, eastern Kyiv culture, and the Lbische culture migrated into the region. At the same time, Azelino settlement became more widespread. Late Sarmatian artifacts also became widely used in the Azelino culture.

A burial site near the village of Stary Uzyum in Tatarstan has been identified with the later Azelino culture and dated to the 6th century.

References

1. ^ Vyazov et al. 2019, p. 423
2. Klima 1996, p. 36
3. Klima 1996, pp. 36–37
4. Vyazov et al. 2019, p. 434
5. Bugrov 2015, p. 7

Bibliography

• Bugrov, D. G. (2015). "Complex of finds from a destroyed early medieval burial in the north of Tatarstan". The Volga River Region Archaeology (in Russian). 4 (14). doi:10.24852/pa2015.4.14.7.34.
• Klima, László (1996). "The linguistic affinity of the Volgaic Finno-Ugrians and their ethnogenesis" (PDF). Studia Histórica Fenno-Ugrica. 1.
• Vyazov, Leonid; et al. (2019). "Demographic Changes, Trade Routes, and the Formation of Anthropogenic Landscapes in the Middle Volga Region in the Past 2500 Years". In Yang, Liang Emlyn; et al. (eds.). Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road. Springer. pp. 411–454. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00728-7. ISBN 9783030007287.

Further reading

• Bugrov, D. G. (1998). "Sites of the Azelino Culture in the Trans-Kama region". Bolgar i problemy istoricheskogo razvitiya Zapadnogo Zakam’ya. 60 let arkheologicheskogo izucheniya: itogi i perspektivy. Tezisy nauch. konferentsii [Bolgar and the problems of the historical development of the Western part of the Trans-Kama region. 60 years of the archaeological study: the results and the prospects] (in Russian). Bolgar.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Gening, V. F. (1963). Azelinskaia kul’tura III–V vv. Ocherki istorii Viatskogo kraia v epokhu velikogo pereseleniia narodov [Azelino Culture of 3rd–5th Centuries: Essays on History of the Vyatka Area in the Great Migrations]. Voprosy arkheologii Urala (in Russian). Vol. 5. Izhevsk. OCLC 234348182.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Leschinskaya, N. A. (2014). Vyatskiy kray v p’yanoborskuyu epokhu (po materialam pogrebal’nykh pamyatnikov I–V vv. n.e.) [Vyatka Krai during the Pyany Bor period (based on the funerary sites of the 1st-5th centuries AD)]. Materialy i issledovaniya Kamsko-Vyatskoy arkheologicheskoy ekspeditsii (in Russian). Vol. 27. Izhevsk.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

• Archaeological cultures in Russia
• Mari people