Slavic archaeological cultures, beginning of 7th century

The Sukow or Sukow-Dziedzice group (german: Sukow-Dziedzice-Gruppe) or Sukow-Dziedzice culture ( pl, Kultura Sukow-Dziedzice, russian: Суковско-дзедзицкая культура), also known as Szeligi culture, was an archaeological culture attributed to the

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. Areal of sites lays between

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and

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rivers in

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and North West

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. The earliest sites date to the second half of 7th and mid-8th centuries. There exist different views on its origin. It has features of both

Przeworsk culture The Przeworsk culture () was an Iron Age material culture in the region of what is now Poland, that dates from the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD. It takes its name from the town Przeworsk, near the village where the first artifacts wer ...

and

Prague-Korchak culture The Prague-Korchak culture was an archaeological culture attributed to the Early Slavs. The other contemporary main Early Slavic culture was the Penkovka culture, Prague-Penkovka culture situated further south, with which it makes up the "Prague-t ...

. In comparison to Carpathian Slavic-speaking population of Korchak-Mogilany-type some consider Sukow-Dziedzice's had different population, maybe indigenous to Poland or arrived from within Poland and Belarus or a mixture of Korchak Slavs and indigenous post-Przeworsk population. M. Kazanski identified the 6th-century Prague-Korchak culture and later Sukow-Dziedzice group as

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archaeological cultures, and the

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(Prague-Penkovka) was identified as Antes. Most recent studies, based on dendrochronological evidence, say that is little evidence of a Slavic presence in Polabia or central and northwestern Poland before the end of the seventh or the early eighth century. There was only sparse settlement till the 9th century.

Later stages

The old theory mainly represented by Joachim Herrmann who argued 7th century second wave immigration origin of later archaeological groups which replaced Sukow is rejected by now. In that period arrived first Slavic people of Sukow culture who didn't build yet strongholds.Biermann, 2011, p. 167 * Feldberg-type, also known as Feldberg- Kędrzyny or Feldberger-

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-Kędrzyny in Poland, appeared mainly in Pomerania and Mecklenburg, but also Little Poland and Southern Silesia, from mid-8th to late 9th century but in some parts was preserved until 9-10th century. Based on data collected, L. R. Lozny in 2013 considered that a minor percentage already appeared in the end of 7th and early 8th century. * Menkendorf-type, also known as Menkendorf-

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in Poland, followed Feldberg-type from late 8th or early 9th until the end of 10th century.Lozny, 2013, pp. 73–72

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