География и особенности жизнеобеспечения городов Золотой Орды по археозоологическим данным
The Geography and Peculiarities of the Life-Support System of the Golden Horde Towns (based upon archaeozoological data)

Author(s): Lilia V. Yavorskaya, Ekaterina Ye. Antipina
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Volga region; Golden Horde; towns; natural zones; life-support system; archaeozoological data
Summary/Abstract: Archaeozoological data are used to reveal two component features of the life-support system characteristic to the Golden Horde Volga region towns: the supply of products from the nearby agricultural area, and from the nomads migrating throughout vast steppe regions. Sustainability of food deliveries to the Golden Horde urban dwellers had been largely associated with a settled rural neighborhood supplying beef, the major meat resource. Its efficiency had been connected mainly with the natural conditions. The consumption of horse, sheep and pig meat had been determined by economic, social and ethnic factors.

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