Book Review: A.N. Sarapulov. The medieval agriculture in the Perm’ Cis-Urals according to the archaeological data. Editor Prof. A.M. Belavin, Perm, 2015, p. 170.

Abstract

The monograph by A.N. Sarapulov is positively evaluated in this review.The agricultural features of the Perm Cis-Urals medieval population in the VII-XV centuries AD are studied in the book. The author has systemized all the archaeological sources on the topic: tillage tools, harvest and processing tools, as well as grain storage constructions. Issues that provide the data on reconstruction of agricultural system and analysis the origin of arable agriculture in the region are of particular interest.

Keywords

• Perm’ Cis-Urals
• medieval ancestors of the Komi-Perm people
• agricultural tools axes
• plowssickles
• millstones
• cereals