• DOI:10.2307/501010
• Corpus ID: 191409715

Archaeological News, Russia

@article{Field1950ArchaeologicalNR,
  title={Archaeological News, Russia},
  author={Henry. Field and Kathleen Price},
  journal={American Journal of Archaeology},
  year={1950},
  volume={54},
  pages={425 - 429}
}

• H. Field, Kathleen Price
• Published 1 October 1950
• History
• American Journal of Archaeology

IN THE Vestnik (92 [24], 1948, 151-160) of the Academy of Sciences appeared a report of the IIMK meeting held on March 16-17, 1947. Among the reports presented were the following. At Vladimirov, Uman region, a Tripolje eneolithic settlement with about 200 houses was located. At Olbia T. N. Knipovich continued excavations in the central part of the upper city where a shrine, attributed to the fourth-third centuries B.c., was found. There were many vessels bearing dedicatory inscriptions, marble fragments of a woman's head from a religious statue, numerous amulets and hundreds of coins. In one trial trench ten auroch horns, arranged like a wreath, were found; in another, fifty-nine amphorae. A cellar was discovered with a cement floor and a cistern, 7.00 m. in depth, which had been used for wine storage. At Panticapaea V. D. Blavatskii concluded that this name was of pre-Hellenic, probably Cimmerian, origin. Recent researches indicate the establishment of a colony from Miletus on Mt. Mithradates during the first half of the sixth century B.C. Panticapaea flourished during the fourth-second centuries B.C. At Lake Ladoga, V. I. Ravdonikas described the results obtained from the excavation of a gorodishche of the seventh-ninth centuries A.D. Previous work had revealed a small, tenth century house as well as large communal houses with storerooms and cattle pens, attributed to the two preceding centuries. Among objects found were abundant early Slavic pottery, wooden cups, scoops, handles, part of a loom, figurines, linen and woolen fragments, and of leather, shoes, part of a helmet, and a strap, iron objects decorated with bronze, a gold ring of Krivichi type, and many beads. Among cultivated plants were found flax for making cloth, barley seeds and millet. Ravdonikas deduced that a group of eastern Slavs, probably from the Upper Dnieper region, settled beside Lake Ladoga during the seventh-eighth centuries of our era. At Bulgar on the Volga A. P. Smirnov continued the work begun in 1938. Nearby, a preBulgar settlement was studied. The Bulgar cemetery of Babiy-Bugr was examined. During this period agriculture, especially the use of the plough, developed. The material culture revealed the connections between the Bulgars and Byzantium, Iran, Central Asia and China.