Korchak group
The Korchak culture (English Korchak culture ) was an archaeological culture in the 6th and 7th centuries in the area of today's Ukraine and Belarus . It is considered the eastern part of the Prague-Korchak culture .
Carriers of the Korchak culture were Slavic tribes that were probably not mentioned in writing ( Dulebs ?).
Distribution area
The Korchak culture extended between Pripyat and the Upper Dnieper in the east and the Southern Bug and Dniester in the west.
It is named after the place where it was found in Korchak between the Prypiat and Teteriv rivers in the Zhytomyr Oblast .
It bordered the Kolotschin culture in the east, the Penkowka culture in the southeast, the Ipoteşti-Cândeşti culture in the south and the Tuschemlja culture in the north .
Emergence
The Korchak culture emerged in the 6th century from the Kiev culture , with the influence of the Germanic Przeworsk and Chernyakhov cultures .
economy
Agriculture and animal husbandry (cattle, goats, sheep, pigs) were the basis of life. Iron was worked.
The ceramic was undecorated.
Settlements
The settlements were on rivers and were unpaved. They consisted of 10 to 20 houses, had an area of 0.5 to 1 hectare and were 0.5 to 3 km apart.
The houses were sunk into the ground and built with wooden post structures. They were rectangular and had an area of 6 to 20 m².
Funeral culture
In burial mounds or in rectangular graves lined with stones in burial fields, corpses were buried in urns.
Succession cultures
In the 8th century, the Korchak culture was followed by the Luka Rajky culture , which can probably be assigned to the Drewljanes mentioned for the 9th century .
Web links
literature
- IP Rusanowa : Karta rasprostranenija pamjatnikow tipa Kortschak (VI - VII ww. Ne) ( cart of the sites of the Korchak culture ), Fig. 176, Moscow 1970
- PM Barford: The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe , chap. 2-4, 2001