Further evidence in support of this interpretation was added after the excavation in present-day Tatarstan (Bol'shie Tarkhany, Tankeevka, and Bol'shie Tigany) of a number of relatively large cemeteries dated to the late eighth and ninth centuries. Burial sites containing horse skeletons and several categories of artifacts quite similar to the earliest burial assemblages in Hungary that were attributed to the Magyars have thus been cited in support of the idea that the region between the Volga and the Ural mountains was the place of origin of the Magyars. Only recently it became apparent that the burial assemblages in the Middle Volga region may be associated with a group of nomads entering the region from the south (perhaps from the steppe lands north of the Caucasus mountains) around 800 C.E. As such, the Middle Volga cemeteries have little, if anything, to do with the local cultural traditions. Analogies with burial assemblages in Hungary are thus to be explained in terms of commonalties within the world of the steppes north of the Black Sea, not of migration from the home territory.

Source: International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online. A Supplement to LexMA-Online. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005

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Florin Curta, 'Magyars, people, 9th c.’, in International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online. A Supplement to LexMA-Online. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005, in Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias <http://www.brepolis.net/bme> [ 7 December 2006]