Pedigree Nests of Scythian Farmers' Settlements of the Left-Bank Ukraine

In: Ukrai͏̈noznavstvo, Heft 2(83), S. 32-61

Abstract

In the 20th Century. P. Tretiakov, B. Tymoshchuk, I. Froianov, V. Mavrodin, and others reasonably considered the nests of settlements as the remnants of the structure of tribal unions named in the ancient Russian chronicles. Archaeological research of settlements of the 7th–3rd centuries BC on the territory of Ukraine over the past hundred years have created opportunities for further social studies of the Slavs. As a topographical basis for searching for the nests of settlements of Slavic clans and tribes, we can, according to B. Rybakov, "take that stable territory, which already three times, on three chronological sections, showed the sameness of its main contours, the one that has already been repeatedly called the homeland of the Proto-Slavic tribes". The study of the social structure of the tribes of Scythian farmers, who spread from the Right Bank to the territory of the Left-Bank Ukraine, we can begin by plotting their settlements on modern maps at a scale of 1: 250,000 in the basins of the Vorskla, Sula, Psel, Seim, and Seversky Donets rivers. The subsequent mapping of the settlements of the Scythian farmers in the area of the Right-Bank Ukraine and of the Nevri in the Upper Dnieper region will create the prospect of geographical, social, and linguistic research and identify the characteristic features of the ethnogenesis of the Slavic-Ukrainians from chronicle tribes to the era of iron, bronze, and copper.