Kiev Culture

Empires - Civilazations

Two enameled brooches from the Kiev Culture that recently showed up at Timeline Auctions. 

The Kiev archaeological culture was located around the lower Dnieper River between about 200 and 500 CE.

Ukraine is characterized by a fast growing economy, a stable currency, a promising market of 50 million people, and some unique opportunities for business. The geographical location of Kiev is advantageous for the development of foreign economic relations. 

Economical growth gave an impulse for development of exhibition business. Now there are several exhibition centers in Kiev provided with everything necessary for conducting exhibitions and trade fairs of international level.

Fifteen centuries of civilisation has left an indelible stamp on the architectural and intellectual landscape of Kiev, and made the city a leading centre of culture, not just in Ukraine but in the whole of East Europe and Russia. Scores of museums, a proud legacy of theatre and a rapidly developing contemporary arts scene mean there's plenty of exhibitions, performances and activities for culture buffs to stick their claws into - whilst theology students shouldn't miss the sensational St. Sophia's Cathedral and the Pechersk Lavra. The latter is a vast complex of monasteries, churches, caves and museums and is considered the spiritual home of Orthodox Christianity.

The Kiev culture is an archaeological culture dating from about the 3rd to 5th centuries, named after Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It is widely considered to be the first identifiable Slavic archaeological culture. It was contemporaneous to (and located mostly just to the north of) the Chernyakhov culture.

Settlements are found mostly along river banks, frequently either on high cliffs or right by the edge of rivers. The dwellings are overwhelmingly of the semi-subterranean type (common among earlier Celtic and Germanic and later among Slavic cultures), often square (about four by four meters), with an open hearth in a corner. Most villages consist of just a handful of dwellings. There is very little evidence of the division of labor, although in one case a village belonging to the Kiev culture was preparing thin strips of antlers to be further reworked into the well-known Gothic antler combs, in a nearby Chernyakhov culture village.

Brooch and chain set from the Kiev Culture that recently showed up at Timeline Auctions. 

The descendants of the Kiev culture — the Prague-Korchak, Penkovka and Kolochin cultures — established in the 5th century in Eastern Europe. There is, however, a substantial disagreement in the scientific community over the identity of the Kiev culture's predecessors, with some historians and archaeologists tracing it directly from the Milograd culture, others, from the Chernoles culture (the Scythian farmers of Herodotus) through the Zarubintsy culture, still others through both the Przeworsk culture and the Zarubintsy culture.

Source

Buko, Andrzej (2008). The Archeology of Early Medieval Poland. Discoveries-Hypotheses-Interpretations. Brill. ISBN 90-04-16230-5
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