URAL-VOLGA CONTEXT OF THE GENESIS OF RADIAL TEMPORAL RINGS
The article discusses the origin of the elements of the radial temporal rings (earrings), spread in several tribal unions of the Eastern Slavs, in the Ural-Volga region. The genesis of the Volintsev stratum of antiquities in the upper Dnieper, Poseimye and upper Poochye, including the early forms of the radial temporal rings, can be associated with the Imenkovo and Kushnarenkovo cultures of the Ural-Volga region. Volintsevsky antiquities are replaced by pastoral ones, not being genetically related to them and not coexisting. The authors suggest that there was a rapid change in the paramilitary ethnic stratum, exercising control over the local Slavic population on behalf of the Khazar Khaganate. After breaking up with the Kaganate, this group of people is moving to the Oka, where it is restoring a direct connection with the Middle Volga - its ancestral home. This is marked by a new cultural impulse that, on the one hand, led to the formation of complete forms of radial temporal rings, and, on the other hand, the appearance of Finno-Ugric ornithomorphic elements on some types of radial temporal rings.