To the question of agriculture in the Ananyino cultural and historical region

Abstract

The issue of agriculture in the Ananyino cultural and historical region is one of the most acute in modern archaeology of the Volga region in the Early Iron Age. Since the end of the XIX century and up to the 80s of the XX century, it was considered indisputable that agriculture existed in this area already in the early Iron Age. However, in the 90s of the XX century, there appeared works that showed the shortcomings and incomplete validity of these views. As a result of studies in recent years, it was possible to receive both indirect (palynology data on the presence of pollen from cultivated plants, information about swidden agriculture, the presence of tools for cultivating the land in collections) and direct (barley and flax finds) evidence of the existence of Ananyino agriculture. Judging by the AMS analysis of barley from the Makaryevskoye hillfort, developed agriculture existed among the population of the post-Maklasheevka culture of ACHR already in the VIII–V centuries BC.

Keywords

• archaeology
• volga-kamye
• early iron age
• post-maclashean culture of ananyino cultural and historical region
• palynology
• soil science
• agriculture
• subsector