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The article presents the main theoretical and methodological ideas about the early history of the Slavs in the first half of the 1st millennium CE. On the basis of archaeological sources, it outlines the current view of the formation of the Slavs and summarizes the major archaeological perspectives on the ancestral home of the Slavs. The article also presents and characterizes the archaeological cultures associated with the ethnogenesis of the Slavs from the Zarubintsy culture through the Kiev, Chernyakhov (Černjaxiv), and Przeworsk cultures to the Carpathian Kurgan (Tumuli) culture. While the earliest studies on the origins of the Slavs that used archaeological sources date back to the nineteenth century, two main approaches to this question emerged after World War II: migrationism and autochthonism. Currently, the Chernyakhov culture is of particular significance for explaining the ethnogenesis of the Slavs. Most researchers agree that a Slavic component was present in that culture, which also explains the close linguistic contact between the Gothic and Proto-Slavic language.
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in Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online
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