Methodological issues of modeling the initial stages of Slavic ethnogenesis

The article analyzes various schemes, models and variants of the origin of the Slavic tribe for their admissibility, taking into account the accumulated data and materials available to researchers (archaeological, anthropological, written), as well as for the systemic inclusion of these schemes and variants in the broader context of the ethnogenesis of other dialect groups of the Indo-European language family. The main goal is to determine the most consistent model of Slavic ethnogenesis, which would allow to restore the earliest stages of history up to the moment of separation of the Slavs from the Slavic-Baltic-Germanic group of Indo-Europeans. The work uses a dialectical method and a multi-stage retrospective method of analyzing archaeological data. The scientific novelty of the work is the comparative historical analysis of paleogenetics data, which was not previously used in the Slavonic discourse. In the course of the study, the following results were achieved: two possible lines of Slavic ethnogenesis (Vistula and Pomeranian) were identified, the Carpathian line of development was completely rejected. During the analysis of each of the two branches, it was found that both converge at a single historical point - the Greater Poland-Mazowiecka group of the corded ceramics culture, which is considered as the earliest archaeological equivalent of the Slavic tribe. An essential methodological principle of the study of the early history of Slavs is postulated – autochthonicity as the ability to preserve linguistic identity despite external (primarily Celtic) cultural influences.

Indo - Europeans, Slavs, mitochondrial haplogroups, Corded ceramics culture, Lusatian culture, Celts, Aunjetitzer Kultur, Pomorze, Kultura grobów kloszowych, nordic type