Music:
Prialia by Mykola Leontovych
Platon Maiboroda Academic Choir, UA: Ukrainian Radio
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Tavern Loop One by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
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Shelter Song by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
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Red Forest by Arthur Vyncke | https://soundcloud.com/arthurvost
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In this episode we talk about the competion of Khazars and Vikings over the Slavic tribal unions in Dnieper region, foundation of Kyiv and its unification with Novhorod by Varangian prince Oleh in 882, which marked creation of the Kyivan Rus.
Episode researches first mentions of Slavs, reveals their role in the Migration Period and Great Slavic Settlement. It describes mostly the first half of the first millenium AD, when the territory of Ukraine became the arena of struggle between Slavic and Turkic people.
Episode describes the domination of nomadic tribes in Ukrainian lands during Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (II millenium BC - III century AD). It reveales role of Cimmerians, Scythians, Sarmatians, as well as Greeks and Romans in the history of Ukraine.
Pictures:
Golden Pectoral: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Pektoral111.JPG
Golden Crest: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Scythian_comb.jpg
Videos:
Scythians and Sarmatians of ancient Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkeWai9hzog
Texts:
Introducing the Scythians: https://blog.britishmuseum.org/introducing-the-scythians/
Maps:
Location of Royal Scythian Mounds: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Scythian_capital_and_royal_kurgans.png
Articles about genetics of nomads:
Shifts in the Genetic Landscape of the Western Eurasian Steppe Associated with the Beginning and End of the Scythian Dominance https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30712-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982219307122%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Ancient genomes suggest the eastern Pontic-Caspian steppe as the source of western Iron Age nomads
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6223350/
Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337992/
Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918750/
Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/016477v1
Diverse origin of mitochondrial lineages in Iron Age Black Sea Scythians
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339713/
History of Ukraine from appearance of the first man to the decline of Trypillian civilisation (mid-third millenium BC).
Additional materials on Trypillian culture.
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq5IrsWVQAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onY1QIv1Fro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gomacU96HnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CwX-C8BSFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgY4SMheKlY
Maps:
Pictures:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Trypillian_city_%28Maydanets%29.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Talianki_%28Trypillian_city%29.jpg
Articles:
http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CT%5CR%5CTrypilianculture.htm
