Korchak culture is an archaeological culture

Archaeological culture

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 of the sixth and seventh century East Slavs

East Slavs

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 who settled along the southern tributaries of the Pripyat River

Pripyat River

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 and from the Dnieper River

Dnieper River

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 to the Southern Bug

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 and Dniester

Dniester

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 rivers, throughout modern day northwestern Ukraine

Ukraine

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 and southern Belarus

Belarus

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. It is the eastern part of the Prague Korchak culture found in modern day Poland

Poland

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Archaeology

Excavations started in the 1920s by S. S. Gamchenko at the village of Korchak near Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr

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, 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 stone furnace placed in one corner. Each dwelling held up to five people, with a less than 100 people per settlement. They performed cremation burial in kurgan

Kurgan

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 burial mounds and in flat-grave cemeteries with cremations in urns. The culture is characterized by the specific shapes of modeled unadorned vessels, which represent the first stage in the development of Slavic

Slavic peoples

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pottery.