The Map of Cultural-Archaeological Areas of Eastern-European Plain in the 10th Century (to the Problem Posed)

The paper presents an experimental map of archaeological cultural areas of the East European Plain in the 10th century, each of which represents a set of archaeological cultures and groups of archaeological complexes similar in a number of characteristics. In the paper the necessity of revision of traditional approach to the interpretation of the archaeological date of the East European plain, which is based on a rigid, but often a priori binding of groups of archaeological monuments to politonyms and ethnonyms, known from written sources, is substantiated. Since archaeological cultures have been named on the basis of such identifications, there is a need to revise the principles of their designation (naming). A bird’s-eye view of the East European Plain made it possible to see the process of the revolutionary transformation of this part of the geopolitical mega-structure of Eurasia, which took place during the “long 10th century”, from the last quarter of the 9th to the middle of the 11th century

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