What ancient cultures gave birth to the proto-Slavonic people ?

[Crux]

So I have been looking at some maps/article recently. And it seems that around what various historians belive was the ancestral homeland of the Slavic people the 2 cultures after the Corded Ware one ended were the Trzciniec (later Lusatian) culture and the Srubna Grave culture. So do you think that the roots of the Slavs laid in one of those cultures or perhaps it is a product of both cultures ?

[Jarl]

I think the Trzciniec horizon is a particularly good candidate. Particularly if we take very close genetic and linguistic relation between Balts and proto-Slavs. We know that West Baltic Mound culture as well as Milogrady, Ceramiki Sztrychowanej, Dnieper-Dvina etc. arose from Sosnica culture. From the neighbouring Trzciniec and Eastern Trzciniec developed Pomeranian culture.

Slavs are most often and most certainly derived from the Zarubintsy culture via the later Zubra group, Kiev culture, multiethnic Chernyakovo, and several other smaller peripheral groups.

A separate problem is the Przeworsk/Oksywie culture. It is said to have developed from Pomeranian culture, just like the Zarubintsy complex, and in fact is often joined with Zarubintsy into a single horizon. German scholars have always claimed Przeworsk to be Vandal. In fact it is a pre-WW II propaganda and there is no proof or evidence for it whatsoever. The whole theory rested on a totally absurd assertion that tribes of the Lugii described in Eastern Germania were simply the same as Germanic Vandals.