Sukow Dziedzice Group

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Archaeological cultures in the 8th century

The Sukow-Dziedzice Group is an early Slavic archaeological group from the 7th and 8th centuries in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and north-western Poland. The eponymous sites are Sukow in Mecklenburg and Dziedzice in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Emergence

According to an older theory by Joachim Herrmann, the bearers of the Sukow-Dziedzice group immigrated from the upper Oder to the north to the Baltic Sea in an almost unpopulated area at the end of the 6th century. For a long time, the oldest dating was a dendrochronological dating of wood from a boardwalk in Sukow around the year 693. However, since the most recent find of an archaeological complex dates the find and this dates from the year 747, the chronological classification had to be revised.

Ceramics

The ceramics of this group are undecorated and not turned on a rotating potter's wheel. It bears "only extensive resemblance" to the "Prague type" pottery spread south of it .

Living spaces

The houses were at ground level with pits. In this they differed from the often recessed smaller residential buildings of the Prague culture.

funeral

Their dead were burned and the ashes were kept above ground or scattered loosely in or on mounds of earth.

Find groups

In the 1980s, Joachim Herrmann and other archaeologists combined the finds from Szeligi to form a Sukow-Szeligi group . Today they are mostly classified as different archaeological groups.

Succession cultures

From the 8th century, the Sukow-Dziedzice group was replaced by the Feldberger , Menkendorfer and other cultures.

swell

  • Dulinicz, M. (2005): Slavic ceramics , in: RGA vol. 29, p. 88 ff.
  • Lüdtke, H & Schietzel, K (2001): Handbook on Medieval Ceramics in Northern Europe, Vol. 1 , pp. 234 ff.
  • Frank Wietrzichowski : On the spread and development of the Sukower group in Mecklenburg. In: Bodendenkmalpflege in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Jahrbuch 1989, Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 1990, p. 37 ff.
  • Joachim Herrmann: The Slavs in Germany. History and culture of the Slavic tribes west of Oder and Neisse from the 6th to 12th centuries. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1985. (p. 27)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Joachim Henning: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the dendrochronology of the Slavic settlement history of East Central Europe - "entanglements" and "confusions". Nitra 2004, pp. 129–135, here p. 133.
  2. ↑ Frank Wietrzichowski : the distribution and development of Sukower group in Mecklenburg . In: Bodendenkmalpflege in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Jahrbuch 1989, Berlin 1990, pp. 37-102.
  3. ↑ Ibid., P. 37.