Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-4907 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1913 (Online)


культурогенез

Vectors of culturogenesis (to a problem of becoming Timber-grave cultures in the North Low-Volga region in the Middle of II th. B.C.)

Culturogenesis in the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. was complicated and multicomponent ones phenomen. The earli tipes of timber-grave culture developed in various ways in different natural geographic niches of Volga, Don and Ural with participation of different transitional cultural types at the turn of middle and late bronze ages (Krivaya Luka, Babino, Lola, Volsk, Pokrovsk, Potapovka, Sintashta, Petrovka). Further we can see global convergence of steppe cattlebreeding tribes and general leveling of the local peculiarities of timber-grave culture. 

Culture Genesis in the Lower Volga Region during the Late Bronze Age

Substantiation is provided for a model of culture genesis in the Lower Volga Region during the Late Bronze Age (LBA). Three phases corresponding to the succeeding archaeological cultures are recognized in the LBA of the region. The first phase (LBA 1) – the Pokrovsk culture, the second one (LBA 2) – the timber-grave culture, the third one (LBA 3) – the Khvalynsk culture of beaded pottery. At the change of phases, monuments of mixed types occur, with combined elements of the preceding and of the subsequent archaeological cultures.