Proto-Ukrainians

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Proto-Ukrainian theories

• The idea has been advanced that the "Proto-Ukrs" were related to the tribe of "uchri" mentioned by Widukind of Corvey
  Widukind of Corvey
  
  Widukind of Corvey was a Saxon people historical chronicler, named after the Saxon duke and national hero Widukind who had battled Charlemagne....
   in the third part of the Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres
  Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres
  
  The three-volume Res gestae saxonicae "The Deeds of the Saxons is an important chronicle of 10th century Kingdom of Germany written by Widukind of Corvey....
   as part of the tribal union of the Polabian Slavs
  Polabian Slavs
  
  Polabian Slavs is a collective term applied to a number of largely extinct West Slavs tribes who lived along the Elbe, between the Baltic Sea to the north, the Saale and Limes Saxonicus to the west, the Sudetes and Franconia to the south, and History of Poland to the east....
  ..
• Prof. Petro Kononenko sought to identify Kyi, an apocryphal co-founder of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, with Attila the Hun
  Attila the Hun
  
  Attila , also known as Attila the Hun, was leader of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube to the Baltic Sea ....
  . Indeed, the Huns
  Huns
  
  The Huns were a confederation of Central Asian Eurasian nomads or semi-nomads, who had established an empire in Eurasia. The Huns may have stimulated the Migration Period, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire....
   are held by some Ukrainian authors to have been a tribe of "proto-Ukrainians", or, more specifically, "the local Slav population from around the river Dnieper".
• In 1993, Serhiy Plachynda published the "Dictionary of Ancient Ukrainian Mythology" where he enlarged upon the subject of "Proto-Ukrainians and Ancient Ukrainians of the Stone Age
  Stone Age
  
  The Stone Age is a broad prehistory time period during which humans widely used Rock for toolmaking.Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone....
  , Neolithic
  Neolithic
  
  The Neolithic period was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 Before the Christian Era in the Middle East that is traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age....
  , Copper Age
  Copper Age
  
  The Chalcolithic period or Copper Age period [also known as the Eneolithic ], is a phase in the development of human culture in which the use of early metal tools appeared alongside the use of stone tools....
  , and Bronze Age
  Bronze Age
  
  The Bronze Age is, with respect to a given prehistory, the period in that society when the most advanced metalworking included smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifact s....
  ".
• In his book "The Ukrs-Aryans" (2003), Oleksandr Chaichenko argues that the Ukrs were a "Pelasgo
  Pelasgians
  
  The name Pelasgians was used by some Ancient Greece writers to refer to populations that preceded the Greeks in Greece, "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably autochthonous people in the Greek world." During the Classical Greece enclaves under that name resided in several locations of mainland Greece, Crete and other regi...
  -Etruscan
  Etruscan
  
  Etruscan may refer to:*the Etruscan civilization* the Etruscan language* the Etruscan alphabet...
   tribe" whose Aryan
  Aryan
  
  Aryan is an English language loanword. As the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language states at the beginning of its definition, "[it] is one of the ironies of history that Aryan, a word nowadays referring to the blond-haired, blue-eyed physical ideal of Nazi Germany, originally referred to a people who looked vastly di...
   ancestors created the Rigveda
  Rigveda
  
  The Rigveda is an ancient Indian subcontinent sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the Rigvedic deities . It is counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas....
  .
• There have been controversial attempts to connect the archaeological site of Kamyana Mohyla
  Kamyana Mohyla
  
  Kamyana Mohyla is an archaeological site in the Molochna River valley, about a mile from the village of Terpinnya, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine....
   in Eastern Ukraine with the genesis of the Sumer
  Sumer
  
  Sumer was a civilization and a historical region located in Southern Iraq , known as the Cradle of civilization. It lasted from the first settlement of Eridu in the Ubaid period through the Uruk period and the Dynastic periods until the rise of Babylon in the early 2nd millennium BC....
  ian cuneiform script
  Cuneiform script
  
  Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known forms of writing system. Emerging in Sumer around the 30th century BC, with predecessors reaching into the late 4th millennium , cuneiform writing began as a system of pictography....
  . The issue spawned sensationalist headlines to the effect of "Ukraine as the urheimat
  Urheimat
  
  Urheimat is a Linguistics term denoting the original homeland of the speakers of a proto-language....
   of the Sumerians".