Korchak culture

The Korchak culture is an archaeological culture of the sixth and seventh century East Slavs[1] who settled along the southern tributaries of the Pripyat River and from the 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] Excavations started in the 1920s by S. S. Gamchenko at the village of Korchak near Zhytomyr, Ukraine.

Open settlements consisted of ten to twenty rectangular, semi-subterranean dwellings with a stone furnace placed in one corner.

The culture is characterized by the specific shapes of modeled unadorned vessels, which represent the first stage in the development of Slavic pottery.