title: Archaeological Reconstructions of the Ethnogenesis of the Eastern Slavs in the Scientific Heritage of Volodymyr Baran and Denys Kozak
abstract: The purpose of the research paper is a comparative analysis of the creative scientific heritage and ethnological criticism of the relevant archaeological reconstructions of the famous Ukrainian researchers V. Baran and D. Kozak, who at the turn of the millennium proposed their own hypotheses about the ethnogenesis and development of Eastern Slavic communities, including the formation of the ‘Ukrainian ethnos’ itself. An important task is also to characterize the excessive nationalization of arch
journal: Eminak