The Armament, Horsemen’s Accoutrements, and Riding Gear of Long Barrow Culture (Fifth to Seventh Centuries)
Volume 8 (2007): Weapons, Weaponry and Man (In memoriam Vytautas Kazakevičius), pp. 238–253
Pub. online: 9 November 2007
Type: Article
Open Access
Received
16 November 2006
16 November 2006
Revised
7 June 2007
7 June 2007
Published
9 November 2007
9 November 2007
Abstract
Several different cultural traditions stand out in Long Barrow Culture. Some of them are characteristic of the Baltic Finno-Ugrians, others of the Balts and Slavs. The aim of this work is to distinguish all these mentioned traditions that are manifested in warrior horseman’s accoutrements and riding gear of the fifth to seventh centuries. From the armament point of view, both Slavic tribes and the inhabitants of the Byelorussian and west Russian forest belt, whose ethnocultural affiliation remains disputed (Balts, Slavs, Balto-Slavs, Finno-Balts, Finno-Ugrians?), comprise an integral continuum from the River Danube to Lake Ladoga. The work also discusses the migrational processes that affected the people in the forest belt in the fifth and sixth centuries.