TETIUSHI-II HILLFORT — AN URBAN-TYPE SETTLEMENTOF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

K.A. Rudenko

doi:10.14258/tpai(2023)35(3).-06

K.A. Rudenko Kazan State Institute of Culture Email: murziha@mail.ru

https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2023)35(3).-06

Keywords: Tetiushi-II hillfort, Imen’kovo culture, urbanization, hillforts, craft, trade, early medieval city, the period of the Great Migration of Peoples

Abstract

The article deals with the issues related to the problem of the existence of urban-type settlements in the Early Middle Ages in the Volga-Kama. On the example of the materials of TetiushiII hillfort located on the right bank of the Volga, the author gives arguments confirming this thesis. Having been studied for six seasons since 2007, Tetiushi-II hillfort has a unique stratigraphy which made it possible to identify the chronological stages of its existence, as well as to determine the peak of its functioning — the second half of the 6th — first half of the 7th centuries. The hillfort, as well as the settlement adjacent to it from the side facing the enemy, belongs to the Imen’kovo culture. A clear layout of the hillfort was recorded: an industrial site with furnaces and melting pits in the northern part of this settlement, an area of craft workshops and residential estates in the southern part of the site near the rampart. The population of the hillfort was engaged in crafts, trade, and had a developed system of cults and was multi-ethnic.

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Author Biography

K.A. Rudenko, Kazan State Institute of Culture

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Museology, Cultural Studies and Art History, Kazan State Institute of Culture

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