Prague Korchak culture
The Prague-Korchak culture (English Prague-Korchak culture ) was an archaeological culture of the 5th to 7th centuries in the area of today's Germany , Poland , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Belarus and the Ukraine .
It included that
- Prague culture
- Korchak culture
- Sukow Dziedzice Group
- Szeligi group
It extended from the central Dnieper and Prypiat to the Danube , the central Elbe and the Havel .
In the east the Prague-Korchak culture bordered the Slavic Kolotschin culture , in the southeast on the Penkowka culture , in the northeast on the Baltic East Lithuanian tumulus culture and in the west on the Frankish Empire .
The bearers of the culture were early Slavic tribes not mentioned by name .
Emergence
The Prague-Korchak culture emerged in the 4th or early 5th century on the upper Pripyat or the upper Vistula from the Kiev culture under the influence of the Przeworsk culture and the Chernyakhov culture .
In the middle of the 5th to the beginning of the 6th century it spread to the upper and middle Vistula, the Upper Oder , the eastern Subcarpathian , the Upper Southern Bug and the central Dnieper . Middle of the 6th century to the beginning of the 7th century then to the Danube and the middle Elbe and Havel.
economy
Agriculture (wheat, rye, oats) and animal husbandry (cattle, pigs, sheep, chickens) were the basis of life. The ceramics were hand-formed and mostly undecorated. It shows influences from the urn field culture and the La Tène culture .
There was metal processing (iron), wood, stone, bone, leather, etc. were also used as materials. a. used.
Settlements
The settlements were mostly on rivers or lakes and were mostly unpaved. These had an area of 0.5 to 1.5 hectares and consisted of 8-20 houses.
The houses were mostly sunk into the earth, almost square and between 6 and 20 m² in size.
Funeral culture
Corpse burns were buried in urns in grave fields, in rare cases in barrows. There were few grave goods (utensils, jewelry).
Subsequent crops
The cultures of some East Slavic and all West Slavic tribes developed from the Prague-Korchak culture.
literature
- Sebastian Brather : Archeology of the Western Slavs. Settlement, economy and society in early and high medieval East-Central Europe. Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Vol. 30. Berlin ²2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020609-8 , online
- H. Lüdtke, K. Schietzel: Handbook on Medieval Ceramics in Northern Europe , Vol. 1, 2001
