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The
Chernyakhiv culture (also known as
Cherniakhov culture) (
second century to
fifth century) was found in
Ukraine and parts of
Belarus. The eponymous site is the village of
Cherniakhiv in
Ukraine's
Kiev Oblast (
Chernyakhov in Russian). It existed in the 2nd-5th centuries AD. Around the year
300, the culture extended into
Romania where it's called the
Sîntana de Mureş culture. It is attested to in thousands of sites.
Formation
The archaeological record shows that the population of the
Wielbark culture had settled in the area and mixed with the previous populations of the
Zarubintsy culture. This cultural movement is interpreted as the migration of the
Goths from
Gothiscandza to
Oium, under the leadership of
Filimer, of which the Goth scholar
Jordanes wrote in the
sixth century.
In the last decades of the second century, the Goths appear to have settled in
Masovia,
Podlachia and
Volynia regions, but some of them moved to the area just north-west of the
Black Sea.
A second wave of Germanic migrants arrived in the mid-
third century, and most of them settled between the
Dniester and the lower
Dnieper, including the Cherniakhiv area.
Most of the population appears to have been
Sarmatians who lived between the lower
Danube and the
Sea of Azov, as well as
Slavs. In the west, there may have been some
Dacians and
Getae. The Sarmatians practiced
inhumation while those deriving from the north, for example, elements descended from the
Zarubintsy culture, continued
urnfield practices.
In
linguistic terms, it's said that this is the time and place where
Slavic and
Iranian borrowed lexical items from each other, and where Slavic picked up many of its
Germanic loanwords. (Gothic, however, has few Slavic loanwords).
Finds
Archaeologists have found
fibulae,
combs and amulets showing contacts with not only
Scandinavia, but also with Central Europe.
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