Natalia Krylasova

Nataliya Krylasova

Natalya G. Bryukhova

The article presents a burial assemblage from Plotnikovsky cemetery in the Perm region. The inhumation burial of a noble child contained a hand-made clay vessel, a bird medallion of tin-lead alloy, and amulets of beaver bone. On the basis of the medallion, which is of local manufacture yet the jewellery technique is typically Novgorodian, and of radiocarbon analysis of the bones, the burial has been dated to the period from the middle of the 14th c. to the middle of the 15th c. The skull shows perforation damage which appears to be gunshot wounds. The article interprets the burial as that of a noble Permyak child who died of gunshot wounds at the time when the ushkuiniks were at the peak of their activity on the Kama river.