Korchak culture
The Korchak culture is an
Dnieper River to the Southern Bug and Dniester rivers, throughout modern-day northwestern Ukraine and southern Belarus
.
It forms the eastern part of the so-called
Prague-Korchak cultural horizon, a term used to encompass the entirety of postulated early Slavic cultures from the Elbe to the Dniester, as opposed to the eastern Penkovka culture.[2]
Archaeology
Excavations started in the 1920s by S. S. Gamchenko at the village of Korchak near
Slavic
pottery.
See also
- List of Medieval Slavic tribes
- Bug-Dniester culture
- Carpathian Tumuli culture
References
- Kukharenko, Iu. V. “Slavianskie drevnosti V-IX vekov na territorii Pripiatskogo Poles’ia.” In the collection Kratkie soobshcheniia o dokladakh i polevykh issledovaniiakh Instituta istorii material’noi kul’tury, fasc. 57. Moscow, 1955.
- Petrov, V. P. “Pamiatniki korchakskogo tipa (po materialam raskopok S. S. Gamchenko).” In the collection Materally i issledovaniia po arkheologii SSR, no. 108. Moscow, 1963.
- Rusanova, I. P.Karta rasprostraneniia pamiatnikov tipa Korchak (VI–VII vekov novoi ery). Ibid., vol. 176. Moscow, 1970.
- Peter Heather, Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe [2]