TheKorchak culture is anarchaeological culture of the sixth and seventh centuryEast Slavs[1] who settled along the southern tributaries of thePripyat River and from theDnieper River to theSouthern Bug andDniester rivers, throughout modern-day northwesternUkraine and southernBelarus.
It forms the eastern part of the so-calledPrague-Korchak cultural horizon, a term used to encompass the entirety of postulatedearly Slavic cultures from the Elbe to the Dniester, as opposed to the easternPenkovka culture.[2]
Excavations started in the 1920s by S. S. Gamchenko at the village of Korchak nearZhytomyr, Ukraine. The Korchak culture was identified as a distinct culture by lu. V. Kukharenko. Open settlements consisted of ten to twenty rectangular, semi-subterranean dwellings with a stone furnace placed in one corner. Each dwelling held up to five people, with less than 100 people per settlement. They performed cremation burial inkurgan burial mounds and in flat-grave cemeteries with cremations inurns. The culture is characterized by the specific shapes of modeled unadorned vessels, which represent the first stage in the development ofSlavic pottery.
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