Pages: 204-207

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.

Keywords: Volga region, Golden Horde, towns, natural zones, life-support system, archaeozoological data

Information about authors:

Liliya V. Yavorskaya. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Address: Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117036, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
Ekaterina Ye. Antipina. Candidate of Biological Sciences. Institute of archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Address: Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117036, Russian Federation 
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