Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 37 (4) 2009

Annotation:  Paleolithic Site Biryuchya Balka-2: Geology, Chronology, and Paleoecology Tolbaga: Upper Paleolithic Settlement Patterns in the Trans-Baikal Region Paleogeography of Kostenki-14 (Markina Gora) Triquestrums of the Scythian Period in the Northern Altai Woven Belts from Sargat Mound 7 at Chepkul-9 Early and Middle Bronze Age Portable Art Pieces from the Forest-Steppe Zone of the Ob-Irtysh Region Anthropomorphic, Zoomorphic, and Solar Symbolisms on Bronze Age Ceramics from the Western Baikal Re Petroglyphs on the Poperechnaya Krasnoyarka River Images of Eurasian Ethnicity in Works of Renaissance Polish Historians The Pleiades as Openings, the Milky Way as the Path of Birds, and the Girl in the Moon: Northern Eur Felt Boot Rollers of the Altai Craniometric Evidence of the Early Caucasoid Migrations to Siberia and Eastern Central Asia, with R Principal Findings of the 20th-Century Population Studies in Tuva On the Origin of the Ryukyu Islanders: The Integration of Craniometric and Cranial Nonmetric Data   

Images of Eurasian Ethnicity in Works of Renaissance Polish Historians

D.V. Karnaukhov.

The study addresses proto-scholarly theories of the origins and early ethnic history of Eurasian peoples (Russians, “Muscovites”, Bulgars, Vandals, Goths, Cumans, Pechenegs, Hungarians, and Tatars) proposed by 16th-century Polish historians. Drawing heavily on the rich ancient and medieval scholarship, these theories allowed the European intellectuals of the Renaissance Age to gain an understanding of how the ethnic map of Eurasia changed over time, where various Eurasian peoples lived, from where they had migrated, and what their languages, cultures, lifestyles, political and social organizations were like.

Keywords: Poland, Renaissance, chronicles, ethnic history, Eastern Slavs, Bulgars, Vandals, Pechenegs, Cumans, Hungarians, Tatars.