Belt Sets from Tat-Boyary Burial Ground of the VI–VIII Centuries in the Vyatka River Basin
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https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2025.3.258.271Keywords:
archaeology, early Middle Ages, Vyatka River basin, burial monument, belt sets, attribution, archaeology, early Middle Ages, Vyatka River basin, burial monument, belt sets, attributionAbstract
The paper deals with artefacts of belt and shoe sets from burials of the early medieval Vyatka Tat-Boyary burial ground attributed to the Emanayevo archaeological culture. The belt sets are analysed through design and decorative features and grouped. Each of six groups features its own stylistics. The analogues to the Tat-Boyary artefacts submitted in the paper allow us to justify a chronological position of each group and, on the whole, to give reasons for the dating of the Tat-Boyary burial ground within VI–VII centuries, perhaps to the beginning of IX century. The chronological range of the ground burials lets us for the first time trace the succession of Late Azelino antiquities to Vyatka burial monuments of VIII–X centuries within a single cultural space.
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