Socio-cultured dynamics in territory of the Kuznetsk hollow during Middle Ages epoch on archeology monuments

In article the author's technique of research socio-cultured dynamics in territory of the Kuznetsk hollow during Middle Ages epoch on materials of archaeological monuments is used. The last are considered as cultural complexes of the medieval population of investigated region. For object in view achievement four problems are consistently solved. First, the information on quantity of the investigated archaeological monuments of an epoch of the Middle Ages (V-XVII centuries) is generalized In territory of the Kuznetsk hollow their register in a databank on medieval archeology of the Kuznetsk hollow also is made. The made register totals 89 names of archaeological monuments. Secondly, according to the published materials all monuments which have got to the register, are distributed on a chronological scale with V on XVII centuries It has allowed for to define every century total of archaeological monuments and in the same chronological range to distribute them on three categories - new, earlier existing (traditional) and disappearing monuments. Thirdly, the received matrix of the data on chronology and three categories of archaeological monuments is brought in program Microsoft Excel then on this basis histograms and the schedule of dynamics of archaeological monuments and sources of this process in the Kuznetsk hollow during Middle Ages epoch are under construction. Fourthly, forms of cultural dynamics are described and the received results are analyzed. By results of research six conclusions have been made. First, research has confirmed legitimacy of interpretation of archaeological monuments as the cultural complexes which are carrying out functions of cultural subsystems of different size and an orientation which mutually supplemented each other and formed various cultural systems and configurations in the Kuznetsk hollow throughout all epoch of the Middle Ages. Secondly, the fact of non-uniform distribution of cultural complexes of the different maintenance, scale and level within cultural space of the Kuznetsk hollow, both during the separate periods of an epoch of the Middle Ages, and within one century is elicited. Thirdly, three sources of cultural dynamics - innovations, traditions and the termination of functioning of monuments are revealed, each of which had the cyclic form of changes in time with different intervals of liftings, achievements of peak and recessions. Fourthly, a leading source of dynamics of medieval culture at level of cultural complexes in the Kuznetsk hollow are traditions. Except for V, VIII, XI and XV centuries when innovations had equal or even больший weight in dynamics of culture, but then again conceded a leading place to traditions. The source of cultural changes connected with the termination of functioning of cultural complexes as a whole only slightly concedes on the importance to innovations, and in separate time intervals (X, XII-XIV and XVII centuries) even surpasses them. Fifthly, on all set of cultural complexes with V on XVII centuries one cycle of cultural development consisting of two phases - origin and lifting with V on XII centuries and recession in XIII-XVII centuries which can be interpreted and as four stages of cultural dynamics - origin (V-VII centuries), lifting (VII-X centuries), blossoming (XI-XIII centuries) and recession (XIV-XVII centuries) is fixed. Sixthly, the continuity of cultural dynamics of archaeological monuments of an epoch of the Middle Ages of the Kuznetsk hollow has been provided at the expense of domination of traditions among sources of this process that allows to characterize on a studied cultural phenomenon medieval culture of the population of this region as traditional that is characteristic for the archaic and medieval periods of history.

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