THE LATE DYAKOVO SITES OF THE VARVARINA GORA TYPE
Annotation
Recent studies have revealed the heterogeneity of the Dyakovo culture at different chronological phasesas well as its regionally distinct character. An analysis of the materials from western regions of the culture enabled us to distinguish yet another local group of the Dyakovo antiquities named after the typesite of Varvarina Gora. The area of the sites of the Varvarina Gora type includes the Upper Msta basinand the lakes in the upper reaches of the Volga and the Shegra rivers. Twelve habitation sites characterized by handmade flat-walled S-shaped vessels with the maximum widening in the middle part of thebody and usually with the ornamented edge of the rim where cord imprints prevail among decorative motifs; biconical weights, bow-shaped mounts, pins with a spiral headplate, rosette plaques and sickles witha loop-shaped end. The sites date to the 2nd–4th centuries AD.