To the issue of the connection between Chernyakhiv and Zarubynets cultures

Abstract

The article analyzes E. Simonovych's attempts to expand the chronological boundaries of the Chernyakhiv culture by linking its origin to the Zarubynets culture on the basis of similarities in ceramics. The main attention is paid to the criticism of this theory, in particular to the works of P. Tretyakov, who questioned the arguments of Simonovych and other researchers. The comparison of ceramics of the Zarubynets and Chernyakhiv cultures proposed by Simonovych is recognized as groundless, since archaeological evidence suggests the Gothic origin of the Chernyakhiv culture, which is confirmed by the study of Velbar antiquities.