>>1371003
It's the realm of archaeology, no?

because nobody cared about them as long as they staid where they were and didn't bother anyone.

>>1371015
Except they did bother everyone around them (talking mainly about Kievan Rus') including Byzantium.

>>1371003

Loads is known, it's just mostly archeology and not history.

>>1371008
>>1371042
Like what?

>>1371030
We are talking about before Rurik.

>>1371003
Lack of written language does that to people's

>posting rurik
o shit!
>ayyo hol up. my name is perkele pekka and rurik was finnish (just like hannibal and mozart)

>>1371107
But Rurik was black.

>>1371003
Pretty sure there's greek sources talking about the overall area. Not much but you can't expect more, it's a land far from all civilization.

>anti-viking fags will always be buttblasted at rurik's name

feels good man

>>1371220
From what I've researched, the Greek sources were mainly on the western Slavs. The eastern slavs were too far out for them to care I assume.

>>1371228
is it that one same finnish fag who tries forcing this meme?

>>1371055
they ate mostly grass

>>1371003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%27_Khaganate

>>1371003
Archaeology in Russia is a smaller scene as i understand and it's in....Russian.

So the same amount of effort to find stuff hasn't happened in Russia and what has been found is behind a language barrier unless something big enough to bother translating gets published.

Not much to find either most likely. People were there but they didn't leave much of a mark on the land.

>>1371030
and that's why people started caring about them.

>>1373208
Archaeology in Russia is a big scene, but the the history of Eastern Slavs before Rurik is not a common knowledge among general educated population.
Right now I have a series of Soviet-era archaeology books downloaded from torrents. There's a book called "East Slavs in VI-XIII centuries".