title: Fortified Settlements of Demidovka and Vyazovenki in the Smolensk Land: Hierarchy, Chronology and Cultural Attribution
abstract: In 2017-2019, the authors of this article began new studies of the fortified settlements of Demidovka and Vyazovenki, located in the vicinity of Smolensk. Both sites (more precisely, their upper horizons) are attributed to the Tushemlin archaeological culture by the classic of Smolensk archeology prof. Schmidt. Taking into account the continuing controversial nature of the cultural attribution of the antiquities of the presentday Smolensk land, the authors attribute these settlements to a wide r
journal: Rossiiskaia arkheologiia