Kyiv culture
The forest and forest-steppe culture of the Dnieper basin in the 3rd to early 5th centuries, widely regarded as the first archaeological culture that can be linked with the early Slavs.
- Date
- c. 200 – between 400 and 430start: year known, approximate; end: exact date unknown: an interval is given · duration: ≈ 215 years
- Place
- Kyivtoday: Kyiv, Ukraine · Eastern Europe
- Participants
- East Slavs, Goths
- Threads
- Eastern Europe and Rus’ before the Baptism (1st–10th c.)
- Also known as
- Kiev culture; Kyivan culture; Киевская археологическая культура
The culture was defined after excavations of the 1940s and 1950s in and around Kyiv, which revealed sites similar to Zarubintsy ones but later. It took shape at the turn of the 2nd and 3rd centuries from late Zarubintsy traditions, with a contribution from Przeworsk groups and from the forest cultures of the upper Dnieper. Its people lived in small riverside villages of square semi-sunken houses, just north of the Chernyakhov zone, and traded with their southern neighbours: in one village antler blanks were prepared for the “Gothic” combs made in a nearby Chernyakhov settlement.
In the 4th century Chernyakhov groups pressed into its southern areas; many scholars connect this with Jordanes’ story of Ermanaric’s conquest of the Venethi and identify the Kyiv culture with the Venethi. The migrations set off by the Hunnic invasion broke the culture up in the late 4th and early 5th centuries; its heirs were the Kolochin and Penkovka cultures. The dates are archaeological.
Connections
Causes and preconditions
- Zarubintsy culturec. 200 BC – c. 200 · Eastern Europe
Consequences
- Early Slavic cultures: Prague-Korchak, Penkovka and Kolochinc. 450 – c. 700 · Eastern Europe
Related events
- The Huns conquer the Alans and the Greuthungic. 370 – 376 · Eastern Europethe migrations it set off broke up the Kyiv culture
Same participants
- Crisis of the Third CenturyMarch 235 – 20 November 284 · Western and Central Europevia Goths
- Chernyakhov culturebetween 200 and 250 – between 400 and 430 · Eastern Europevia Goths
Same place
- Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv: the legendary founding of Kyivbetween 500 and 700 · Eastern Europe
- First Christianization of the Rus’between 860 and 867 · Eastern Europe
- Askold and Dir rule in Kyiv862–882 · Eastern Europe
- Oleg takes Kyiv882 · Eastern Europe
- The Pechenegs first come to the Rus’ land915 · Eastern Europe
- Constantine VII describes the Rus’ route to Constantinoplebetween 948 and 952 · Eastern Europe
- Pecheneg siege of Kyiv968 · Eastern Europe
- Feud of the Sviatoslavichi977 – between 978 and 980 · Eastern Europe
- Vladimir’s pagan pantheonbetween 978 and 980 · Eastern Europe
- Vladimir’s choice of faith986–987 · Eastern Europe
- Baptism of Rus’988 · Eastern Europe
- Building of the Church of the Tithes989–996 · Eastern Europe
- The first Rus’ coinsbetween 988 and 1000 – 1015 · Eastern Europe
- Siege of Kyiv5 September – between 19 November and 6 December 1240 · Eastern Europe
Adjacent events in the thread
- The Goths settle in Oiumc. 180 – c. 230 · Eastern Europe
Meanwhile in the world
Other regions, within a year of this event
Western and Central Europe
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge28 October 312
- Edict of MilanFebruary 313
- Establishment of the Tetrarchy1 March 293
- Aurelian Walls271–275
- Crisis of the Third CenturyMarch 235 – 20 November 284
+ 5 events
Balkans and Anatolia
- Great Persecution24 February 303 – 313
- First Council of Nicaeabetween May and June 325 – between July and August 325
- Founding of Constantinople11 May 330
- Battle of Abritusbetween June and August 251
- Battle of Adrianople9 August 378
+ 2 events
Africa
- Vandal conquest of Roman AfricaMay 429 – 442
The same period
Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Kiev culture
- Wikipedia (Russian): Киевская археологическая культура
- Седов В. В. Славяне в раннем средневековье. — М.: Фонд археологии, 1995.
- Wikidata: Q2732554