One of the main arguments of the supporters of the official theory of the absence of any distant pre-Christian past among the Slavs is, allegedly, the almost complete absence of archaeological finds confirming the opposite.
And although there are just enough finds, they are either ignored or their significance is minimized as much as possible.
Whether it is the Sumerians, ancient Egypt! Crafted buildings, stone carvings, sculptures, aqueducts and so on. And what about the territory of modern Russia? Arkaim? Sungir? Kostenki? Zyuratkul finds?
What I would like to say about this - yes Arkaim, and not Arkaim, but more than 20 similar complexes found in the region and Sungir and Kostenki and much more.
And there is no need to blur their meaning and do not compare them with the stone palaces of other civilizations. More precisely, there is no need to compare with civilizations, and here's how I think why:
In Slavic culture, one of the images of the word "man" carries the concept of temporality, measured age. I believe that a person should not leave behind anything material, of course, except for his children.
My statement may well seem absurd to someone, but let's understand further.
The construction of stone or brick structures is primarily needed where there are serious problems with wood. The costs of processing stone, moving it and the construction itself are incomparably higher than wooden buildings, hardly anyone will argue with this.
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Stone was also used in the construction of temples or houses of the rich to emphasize their power and greatness. The people were simpler to manage with houses made of adobe bricks or clay with straw.
And in conditions where to get wood for construction did not pose any problems, economically the stone lost significantly. They were built from wood. If we take into account a completely different approach to life in general and its values, in contrast to the show-off of empires and civilizations, then it turns out that there was no need to build from stone at all. And even timber construction was not always necessary. Tents and fireplaces do not yet speak of the backwardness of technology, as well as birch bark in comparison with paper.
It is important to remember that Arkaim, like other similar settlements (cities), is unique not only for its incredibly complex architecture and organization for that time, albeit with a modest size. Every 50 years, these cities were burned to the ground, the wells were filled up, and not far away, exactly the same new settlements were built, which were also burned 50 years later and subsequent ones were erected in the places of the previous ones.
What for? Officially, and I think absolutely deservedly, it is believed that in order to avoid the outbreak of epidemics. But is it only this?
For example, an additional side effect of this approach was the transfer of knowledge by masters to their students in practice.
And most importantly, it supports the tradition I mentioned at the beginning that after a person leaves, nothing should remain of him on the earth, which can be designated by the expression "lived - take away after yourself", keep the surrounding nature in the same state as it was before your arrival, do not erect monuments to yourself and mausoleums, which are, in fact, heaps of garbage on the kind left by an uncultured tourist in the forest, alien to nature. The rule of sufficiency, if you want, to have what you need and only for that period while you need it. This is the basis of a worldview that is important to accept and understand.
And this is a key and significant difference between the ancient Slavic culture of peoples living in harmony with nature and famous civilizations striving to leave behind as many people as possible, people who are constantly competing with each other, who are more significant and richer, where everyone wants to perpetuate themselves in history and be glorified before their neighbors.
Temples are multiplying and growing in size, because whoever has a bigger temple and those who have a cooler god! Whoever has a richer ruler and more territory is more significant. The one who had the largest and most expensive gravestone was the greatest man during his lifetime …
Where is there before the race of civilizations for our ancestors who destroyed what they created with their own hands.
The Phoenix bird reviving from the ashes, a wonderful symbol of ancient legends, is another example of this, and it is precisely this worldview that explains the phenomenon of the Phoenix and from what it is the Phoenix that revives from the ashes, burning itself.
Everything is very simple to understand if you step aside and look at things calmly, accepting at least for a minute that today's supposedly universal human values and the accepted worldview are not the only ones.
Speaking about the Arkaims, it is not the size and decoration of the temples that are important, especially since these are not cities in the literal sense of the word, but most likely something like defense, metallurgical, blacksmith centers.
Speaking about Sungiri or Kostenki, it is important to understand that according to the reconstruction of Professor Gerasimov, people who lived hundreds of thousands of ice back there outwardly did not differ in any way from modern Slavs. It is also important that the funeral rites there are the same as in Arkaim and other places, and this speaks of the integrity of the cultures of peoples living at a distance of thousands of kilometers from each other and for thousands of years.
Finally, I advise you to take a look at the summary table of cities and settlements by the date of their formation. Pay attention to the number of inhabitants. Figures, they themselves will say everything better than any words.
| Town | Country | Date, BC | Residents | The size |
| Archanthropus | ||||
| Nepryakhino | Russia | 70 - 50.000 | > 0.128 km² | |
| The emergence of protoruses (Caucasians) | ||||
| Kostenki (60 pcs.) | Russia | 45-15000 | 6.0 km² | |
| Sungir | Russia | 30,000 | 50 | 0.005 km² |
| Bulls | Russia | 24000 | 2.000 RUR | 0.2 km² |
| Avdeevo | Russia | 21000 | 9p | 0.0009 km² |
| Zaraysk | Russia | 21000 | ||
| Mishenskoye | Russia | > 10000 | 1.300 rub | 0.13 km² |
| Kartashovo | Russia | 10 - 5000 | 216r | 0.0216 km² |
| Sister cartilage | Russia | 10 - 5000 | ||
| Slobodka 2 | Russia | 10 - 5000 | 220 rub | 0.022 km² |
| Kobyakovo 1 | Russia | 10 - 5000 | 424r | 0.0424 km² |
| Kikina duct 1 | Russia | 10 - 5000 | 120r | 0.012 km² |
| Voronet | Russia | 10 - 5000 | ||
| Mescherino | Russia | 8 - 3000 | 300r | 0.03 km² |
| Andryushkovo | Russia | 8 - 3000 | 135 rub | 0.0135 km² |
| Aleksin | Russia | 8 - 3000 | ||
| Jericho | Palestine | <8000 | ? 3./250r | 0.025 km² |
| Moscow | Russia | 8 - 3000 | ||
| Red 1 | Russia | 8 - 3000 | 160 rub | 0.016 km² |
| Kulikovka | Russia | 8 - 3000 | 105 rub | 0.0105 km² |
| Chatal Huyuk | Turkey | 6000 | 1.280r | 0.128 km² |
| Upa-4 (Tula) | Russia | 6000 | 135 rub | 0.0135 km² |
| Dyalul Viei | Moldavia | 4400 - 4300 | 130 rub | 0.013 km² |
| Petren | Moldavia | 3750 - 3000 | ||
| Talians | Russia | 3600 - 3500 | 6. - 15.000 | 4.5 km² |
| Maidanetskoe | Russia | 3500 - 3320 | 8. - 14.000 | 2.7 km² |
| Dobrovody | Russia | 3500 - 3320 | 8. - 14.000 | 3.5 km² |
| Drying | Russia | 3500 - 3320 | 8. - 14.000 | 3.5 km² |
| Chichirkozovka | Russia | 3500 - 3320 | 8. - 14.000 | 3.0 km² |
| Tomashevka | Russia | 3500 - 3320 | 8. - 14.000 | 3.5 km² |
| Mikhailovka | Russia | 3500 - 3320 | 1.0 km² | |
| Vladimirovka | Russia | 3500 - 3320 | 0.7 km² | |
| Tripoli | Russia | 3500 - 3320 | 3. - 10.000 (20. - 24.000) | |
| Nehen, Greek. Hierákon, Hierakonpolis | Egypt | 3500 | ||
| Sidon | Lebanon | 3500 | ||
| Heliopolis | Egypt | ser. 4000 | ||
| Gubble (Bible) | Lebanon | ser. 4000 | 450r | 0.045 km² |
| Ur | Sumer | ser. 4000 | ||
| Turdey (p1) | Russia | 4. - 1.000 | 270r | 0.027 km² |
| Shilovo (p) | Russia | 4. - 1.000 | 143r | 0.0143 km² |
| Zhurishki 4 | Russia | 4. - 1.000 | 300r | 0.03 km² |
| Liquid | Russia | 4. - 1.000 | 100 rub | 0.01 km² |
| Belomestnoe | Russia | 4. - 1.000 | 400 rub | 0.04 km² |
| Jericho | Palestine | <4000 ??? | 2.350 RUB | 0.235 km² |
| Nippur | Sumer | 3400 | ||
| Edfu | Egypt | > 3000 | ||
| Umbe (Ummah) | Sumer | <3000 | ||
| Babylon | Babylon | <3000 | ||
| Troy | "Greece" | 3000 - 2500 | ||
| Eridu | Sumer | 2900 | 800r | 0.08 km² |
| Ungu (Uruk) | Sumer | 28 - 27 | ? 4.4 km² | |
| Nineveh | ? 7.4 km² | |||
| Ur | Sumer | ? 2750-2615 | 4.000 | |
| Muru | Sumer | 2750 - 2615 | 1.000 | |
| Ubaid | Sumer | 2750 - 2615 | 1.000 | |
| Mohenjo-Daro | India | 2710 - 2250 | ? 40.000 | |
| Shuruppak | Sumer | 2615 - 2500 | 15.000 | |
| Ising | Sumer | 2500 - 2100 | ||
| Ngirsu | Lagash | 2340 - 2318 | 17.500 | |
| Troy I | 63 rub | 0.0063 km² | ||
| The appearance of the Semites | ||||
| Akkad (Agad) | Iraq | 2300 | ||
| Berita (Beirut) | Lebanon | 18 - 15 | ||
| Arkaim | Russia | 1700 | 200 rub | 0.02 km² |
| Napata | Sudan | 15 | ||
| Ecbatana (Hamadan) | Iran | eleven | ||
| Dolmatovka (c5) | Russia | early 1 t. | 700 rub | 0.07 km² |
| Zavalnoye | Russia | early 1 t. | 45.000 rub | 4.5 km² |
| Shatsk 1st (c4) | Russia | early 1 t. | 380 rub | 0.038 km² |
| Krutitsy (c1) | Russia | early 1 t. | 3.000 RUR | 0.3 km² |
| Mostaushka (c1) | Russia | early 1 t. | 300r | 0.03 km² |
| Filonovka (c2) | Russia | early 1 t. | 1.080r | 0.108 km² |
| Ishutino (g) | Russia | early 1 t. | 270r | 0.027 km² |
| Kostomarovka (c1) | Russia | early 1 t. | 700 rub | 0.07 km² |
| Batashevka (c2) | Russia | early 1 t. | 1.080r | 0.108 km² |
| Makhrinka (c1) | Russia | early 1 t. | 900 rub | 0.09 km² |
| Settlement (c3) | Russia | early 1 t. | 1.330 rub | 0.133 km² |
| Grooves | Russia | early 1 t. | 200 rub | 0.02 km² |
| Small towns | Russia | early 1 t. | 100 rub | 0.01 km² |
| Voskresenskoe * + | Russia | early 1 t. | 3.300r | 0.33 km² |
| Cherry | Russia | early 1 t. | 180 rub | 0.018 km² |
| Kolyupanovo | Russia | early 1 t. | 150 rub | 0.015 km² |
| Babylon (no new mountains) | Babylon | 7 c. | 30.000 rub | 3.0 km² |
| Erk-Kala (Mevr) | Turkmen. | ser. 1 t. | 1.200 rub | 0.12 km² |
| Ryazan | Russia | +10 c. | 4.800 RUB | 0.48 km² |
| Suzdal | Russia | +1024 | 4.900 RUB | 0.49 km² |
| Cabal (Kabalak) | Albania | +15 - 16 centuries. | 2.500 rub | 0.25 km² |
Summary table of cities and settlements. The "+" sign indicates the dates of the cities of our era.
Author: Sil2