Журнал Revista Arheologocă, serie nouă, vol. V, nr. 2, 2010, p. 91-128, Молдовааннотация:
Geoinformation Analysis of Chernolessian Fortifications (X-IX c. B. C., Right Bank of the Middle Dnepr Bassin): a search of explaining model.
The present paper discusses the problem of appearance of Chernoles settlement on the RightBank of the Middle Dnepr Bassin. Chernolessian fortifications known at the present moment have circular or less common oval outline and small size, however the preserved vestiges of defensive constructions (walls and moats) indicate a highly labour-extensive character of their construction. The compact localisation of similar settlements at a distance
of a visual signal on the right bank of river Tyasmin (a tributary of the Dnieper) indicates that they compose a special signal system, which first appeared in the region since the founding of the settlements somewhere in the X century BC. Two basic conceptions explaining origin of Chernolessian fortifications are discussed: the model of external Cimmerian threat (A. I Terenozhkin, S. A. Skoryi, S. V. Mahortyh, V. I Klochko, and others), and the model of internal development of Chernolessian culture (N. P. Shevchenko, Ya. P. Gershkovich, V. I. Poltavetz). The paper quotes arguments against the supposed Cimmerian military threat, which could be a cause for Cherlolessian settlements construction. The cases of burned settlements in the region under study and more eastern areas of the forest-steppe, dated back to XI century BC,were considered. Sometribes of Belozerskaya culture are regarded as a possible aggressor. The topographic-geodetic research and GIS analysis of the Chernolessian fortification showed that if the settlement were built for defensive purposes, the military tactics of the alleged enemy did not include the massive bombardment from the bows, as well as the presence of arrows with metal tips. Prospects for solving problems of Chernolessian settlements belong to the domain of
study of the early processes of centralization or even protourbanisation that engulfed in X-IX centuries BC large areas of the Carpathian Basin, Southeastern and Eastern Europe.
