[3] It is either named after the adjacent bays or after an archeological site in the village of Rzucewo (Rutzau) near Puck.
Rzucewo settlements, consisting of characteristic houses reinforced against sea erosion, were located along the coast and further east.
[5] The Rzucewo people had domesticated cattle, pigs, some goats, but did little cultivation[6] and engaged in fishery and hunting, especially of seals, then numerous along the Baltic coast.
The Rzucewo culture people produced and widely traded amber decorative items in specialist shops.
[2] Tracing formation of the Balts to Rzucewo culture could explain differences between Western and Eastern Balts and their languages (and possibly a stage of West Baltic–Pre-Slavic unity; see Balto-Slavic languages),[8] though linguistic conclusions based on this methodology are controversial and tentative at best, ad hoc at worst.