Pages: 411-436 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp265411436

The article analyzes I. Tentyuk’s attempt to attribute the Ekimautsy-Alchedar-type ringforts to a Scandinavian tradition. It demonstrates that this attribution is entirely unsubstantiated and cannot withstand critical scrutiny. With several clarifications and additions, the analysis supports the previously proposed and substantiated hypothesis of R. A. Rabinovich and S. S. Ryabtseva concerning the West Slavic origin of the population that built these ringforts. The only plausible explanation for their origin is a ninth-century migration of a West Slavic group from Great Moravia or a neighboring area that was, in any case, clearly within its cultural and political sphere of influence. However, unlike R. A. Rabinovich and S. S. Ryabtseva, the author associates this migration and the Ekimautsy-Alchedar ringforts with the Ulichi.

Keywords: archeology, Western Slavs, Great Moravia, migration, Ulichy, Ekimautsy-Alchedar, ringforts

Information about author:

Aleksey Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova). PhD in Theory and history of culture. Institute of Cultural Heritage of Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Stefan cel Mare Bd., 1, Chişinău, MD-2001, Moldova
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-2021-7958