Журнал Revista Arheologocă, serie nouă, vol. V, nr. 2, 2010, p.
91-128, Молдова
аннотация:
Geoinformation Analysis of Cheolessian Fortifications (X-IX c. B. C., Right Bank of the Middle Dnepr Bassin): a search of explaining model.
The present paper discusses the problem of appearance of Cheoles settlement on the RightBank of the Middle Dnepr Bassin. Cheolessian fortifications known at the present moment have circular or less common oval outline and small size, however the preserved vestiges of defensive constructions (walls and moats) indicate a highly labour-extensive character of their construction. The compact localisation of similar settlements at a distance
of a visual signal on the right bank of river Tyasmin (a tributary of the Dnieper) indicates that they compose a special signal system, which first appeared in the region since the founding of the settlements somewhere in the X century BC. Two basic conceptions explaining origin of Cheolessian fortifications are discussed: the model of exteal Cimmerian threat (A. I Terenozhkin, S. A. Skoryi, S. V. Mahortyh, V. I Klochko, and others), and the model of inteal development of Cheolessian culture (N. P. Shevchenko, Ya. P. Gershkovich, V. I. Poltavetz). The paper quotes arguments against the supposed Cimmerian military threat, which could be a cause for Cherlolessian settlements construction. The cases of bued settlements in the region under study and more easte areas of the forest-steppe, dated back to XI century BC,were considered. Sometribes of Belozerskaya culture are regarded as a possible aggressor. The topographic-geodetic research and GIS analysis of the Cheolessian fortification showed that if the settlement were built for defensive purposes, the military tactics of the alleged enemy did not include the massive bombardment from the bows, as well as the presence of arrows with metal tips. Prospects for solving problems of Cheolessian settlements belong to the domain of
study of the early processes of centralization or even protourbanisation that engulfed in X-IX centuries BC large areas of the Carpathian Basin, Southeaste and Easte Europe.
Geoinformation Analysis of Cheolessian Fortifications (X-IX c. B. C., Right Bank of the Middle Dnepr Bassin): a search of explaining model.
The present paper discusses the problem of appearance of Cheoles settlement on the RightBank of the Middle Dnepr Bassin. Cheolessian fortifications known at the present moment have circular or less common oval outline and small size, however the preserved vestiges of defensive constructions (walls and moats) indicate a highly labour-extensive character of their construction. The compact localisation of similar settlements at a distance
of a visual signal on the right bank of river Tyasmin (a tributary of the Dnieper) indicates that they compose a special signal system, which first appeared in the region since the founding of the settlements somewhere in the X century BC. Two basic conceptions explaining origin of Cheolessian fortifications are discussed: the model of exteal Cimmerian threat (A. I Terenozhkin, S. A. Skoryi, S. V. Mahortyh, V. I Klochko, and others), and the model of inteal development of Cheolessian culture (N. P. Shevchenko, Ya. P. Gershkovich, V. I. Poltavetz). The paper quotes arguments against the supposed Cimmerian military threat, which could be a cause for Cherlolessian settlements construction. The cases of bued settlements in the region under study and more easte areas of the forest-steppe, dated back to XI century BC,were considered. Sometribes of Belozerskaya culture are regarded as a possible aggressor. The topographic-geodetic research and GIS analysis of the Cheolessian fortification showed that if the settlement were built for defensive purposes, the military tactics of the alleged enemy did not include the massive bombardment from the bows, as well as the presence of arrows with metal tips. Prospects for solving problems of Cheolessian settlements belong to the domain of
study of the early processes of centralization or even protourbanisation that engulfed in X-IX centuries BC large areas of the Carpathian Basin, Southeaste and Easte Europe.