Pushkova A. A. Settlement geography of the Mordvins in the Oka-Sura-Tsna interfluve of the 8th — first half of the 13th centuries

Anastasia A. Pushkova
research engineer at the Scientific Research archaeological laboratory, Vyatka State University
Kirov, Russia
E-mail: anas.naya24@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-7828-4758$

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УДК 913(=511.152)”7/12”
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2022-1-1-93-99

ABSTRACT. In modern archaeological science, the cartographic method is becoming increasingly popular among researchers. Mapping makes it possible to identify the territorial features of archaeological sites, trace migration waves, demographic processes, etc. The research aims at analyzing the dynamics of the settlement of the ancient Mordovian population in the 8th — first half of the 13th centuries on the basis of archaeological materials. The currently known archaeological sites were entered into the data system using SAS.Planet, and then visualized using the free geoinformation platform QGIS 3.16.9. in the form of maps. The study area includes the main regions of Mordovia, and these are the Tambov (Morshansky, Tambov districts), Penza (Shemysheysky, Bessonovsky, Narovchatsky, Vadinsky, Zametchinsky, Sosnovsky districts), Nizhny Novgorod (Diveevsky, Ardatovsky, Bogorodsky, Shatsky, Arzamas districts) regions and the Republic of Mordovia (Temnikovsky, Krasnoslobodsky, Atyrau, Zubovo–Polyansky, Torbeevsky, Yelnikovsky, Kovylkinsky districts). The research resulted in the first electronic database of archaeological monuments of Mordovia of the 8–13th centuries which allowed the author to trace the movement of the people associated with certain political processes.

KEYWORDS: archaeology, Mordvins, Moksha river, Tsna river, Vad river, Sura river, Oka river, interfluve, settlement boundaries, Middle Ages, settlement system, GIS

For citation: Pushkova A. A. Settlement geography of the Mordvins in the Oka-Sura-Tsna interfluve of the 8th — first half of the 13th centuries // Historical Geography Journal. 2022. Vol. 1. № 1. P. 93–99.

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