Professor Oleksii Ivanovych Terenozhkin (to the 110 Years since the Day of Birth)

  • Serhii A. Skoryi Institute of Archeology, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • Valerii N. Saienko Tokmak Local Lore Museum
Keywords: O.I. Terenozhkin, Historiography, Scythians’ History, Cimmerians’ History, Ukrainian History, History of Central Asia, History of Archeology.

Abstract

O.I. Terenozhkin (26 (13).11.1907—19.05.1981) was an archaeologist who worked in Ukraine, Russia, and Central Asia, Doctor of Science (conferred in 1958), professor (conferred in 1967).

The scholar researched the pre-Scythian period in the forest-steppe region and discovered a significant number of archaeological sites. He separated the Chornolis archaeological culture and proved its connection with the earlier cultures of the Bronze Age. He reasoned the connection of the Chornohorivskyi and Novocherkask stages in the steppe part of Eastern Europe with the historical Cimmerians. The scientist elaborated the issues of the Scythians’ origin, the expansion of their culture, the Scythians’ ethnical geography, social relations, and the formation of their state. He believed the Scythia to be the only multy-ethnic state within the steppe and forest-steppe areas with the domination of the Iranian-speaking Scythians originating from Central Asia. He also traced the continuous succession of archaeological cultures in the forest-steppe areas of Right-bank Ukraine: from the Trzciniec culture via Chornolis one to the Scythian culture and further to the Early Slavic Zarubyntsi culture, that resulted in his conclusion that the population of these areas was composed by the predecessors of the Slavs in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages.

O.I. Terenozhkin was a leader of scientific school of Scythian studies in Kyiv and is the author of more than 200 scientific publications

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