The Excavations of the Cemetery Malaya Ryazan I in 2020
Journal: Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)
Year: 2023

The paper represents the archaeological materials found in 2020 during the excavations of the cemetery Malaya Ryazan I, located in the south-western part of Samara Bend. Four burial complexes were recorded in the excavation, which find clear analogies among the materials of the Novinki cultural type of the Saltovo-Mayaki cultural community. Typical are gravestone structures in the form of stone slabs and memorial sites marked with clusters of livestock bones, as well as traces of ritual destruct