Handmade Geometrical Design Solar Amulet, Antique Kyiv Culture piece replica

Early Slavic Historical Geometrical Design Solar Amulet

Antique Kyiv Culture piece replica (original dated 3-5 century AD)

Size: 4 cm

Weight: 4.9 g.

Material: brass (Red and Black enamel) and pewter (Blue enamel) - original enamel

Kyiv Culture

The Kyiv culture, or Kiev culture, is an archaeological culture dating from about the 3rd to 5th centuries, named after Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is widely considered to be the first identifiable Slavic archaeological culture. It was located in the middle and upper Dnieper basin, with similar sites in the upper Dnieper and upper Dvina basins, as well as the type Cherepyn–Teremtsy sites in the upper Dniester basin and the type Ostrov sites in the Pripyat basin, in Ukraine and Belarus. It was contemporaneous with, 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 predominantly 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 Kyiv culture was preparing thin strips of antlers to be further reworked into the well-known Gothic antler combs in a nearby Chernyakhov culture village.

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