History of Indoeuropian Studies in Ukraine

Keywords: Indo-Europeans, historiography, Indo-European native land, Northern Black Sea Region, Baltic ethno-cultural province.

Abstract

Despite the fact that most modern scholars include the territory of Ukraine, to some extent, to the ancestral Indo-European homeland, Indo-European studies, unfortunately, have not become a priority issue for Ukrainian archaeologists, paleoethnologists and linguists yet. This brunch of science still is at the embryonic stage in Ukraine. Among the Ukrainian scientists that brought in the contribution to development of range of problems it is necessary to remember М. Hrushevskyi, V. Danylenko, D. Telehin, Yu. Pavlenko, L. Zalizniak, S. Koncha etc.

In particular as early as 1990-ies a conception of the Baltic-Dnieper ethno-cultural province was offered, as a single real base of the most ancient Indo-European cultures of Central Europe and Black Sea Region (Zalizniak 1994). It explains the relation of western (Celt, Italics, Illirians, Tokharians, Germans, Baltics, Slavs) and east (Indo-Iranians, Thracians, Armenians, Greeks) Indo-Europeans, despite that the mentioned ethnic groups originate from two different regions of Europe, divide distance in two thousand kilometers (from Central Europe and Northern Black Sea Region).

The archaeology, anthropology, and hidronymic data evidence that in the lowlands from the Lower Rhine at the west to the Middle Dnieper and Siverskyi Donets Rivers at the east, at the end of the Mesolithic, an ethno-cultural community existed with probably participation in the development of ancient Indo-Europeans of Europe, as their genetic substrate. The later developed in 6th and 5th millennia BC as a result of migration of Western Baltic Mesolithic population to the East via the territory of Poland and Polissia to the Dnieper River middle region and further to the Siverskyi Donets.

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