Kiev culture

The Kiev culture (ocher) in the 3rd / 4th Century. Gray purple: Baltic cultures with boundaries of frequent (double band) and sporadic (double- dot -dash band) occurrence of Baltic hydronyms , green: Finno-Ugric cultures , black writing: Iranian tribes , gray writing: other cultures and tribes with expansion of the Goths (gray ) and Huns (brown arrow). Map of the Lomonosov University Linguarium project .

The Kiev culture was an archaeological culture of the 2nd to 5th centuries on the territory of today's Ukraine , Russia and Belarus .

Distribution area

The distribution area extended over the oblasts of Kiev , Chernihiv and Sumy in the Ukraine, Homel and Mahiljou in Belarus and Kursk , Brjansk , Pskow to Samara in Russia.

The culture is named after a site near Kiev .

It bordered in the north on the Baltic stick pottery and the Dnieper Dvina culture , in the west on the Germanic Przeworsk culture and in the south on the likewise Germanic Chernyakhov culture .

Emergence

The Kiev culture emerged from the Sarubinzy culture under the influence of the line ceramic culture and the Przeworsk culture .

economy

Agriculture (iron sickles) and animal husbandry were the main sources of nutrition. The craft was developed, the ceramics simple (less differentiated than in the previous Sarubinzy culture ).

There were finds of Roman origin (jewelry, bronze tweezers, coins).

Settlements

The settlements were near rivers, sometimes on hills, and were unfortified. They consisted of a few houses on approx. 0.5 - 2 ha (in individual cases 6 - 8 ha). The houses were sunk into the ground (0.4 - 1.2 m) with an area of ​​8 to 24 m² and were built either rectangular or at ground level with a wooden post construction and window openings.

Funeral culture

Corpse burns were buried in round or oval graves (0.2-0.6 m deep) next to the houses in urns. The additions were sparse.

Changes

After the invasion of the Huns, the Penkovka culture and the Kolotschin culture emerged in the middle of the 5th century , encompassing larger territories.

She was likely a forerunner of the early East Slavic groups . With their gradual expansion, the East Slavic languages began to spread in Eastern Europe with the assimilation of the previous inhabitants.

Web links

• Киевская культура Kiev culture (Russian)
• The Kiev archaeological culture as an early stage in the development of the Anten (Russian)

Remarks

1. ↑ In a slightly enlarged and modified version to be found here on the Linguarium website .
2. ↑ AG Furasjew, about the role of migration in the ethnogenesis of the early Slavs, 2009 online
3. ↑ DA Staschenkow, About an early date of the Imenkow culture online ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.