10 Facts About Zarubintsy culture

Zarubintsy or Zarubinets culture was a culture that, from the 3rd century BC until the 1st century AD, flourished in the area north of the Black Sea along the upper and middle Dnieper and Pripyat Rivers, stretching west towards the Southern Bug river.

Zarubintsy culture sites were particularly dense between the Rivers Desna and Ros as well as along the Pripyat river.

The Zarubintsy culture was named after finds of cremated remains in the village of Zarubyntsi on the Dnieper.

Zarubintsy culture is possibly connected to the pre-Slavic ancestors of early Slavs, with possible links to the peoples of the Dnieper basin.

The Zarubintsy culture was influenced by the La Tene Zarubintsy culture and the nomads of the steppes .

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Bearers of the Zarubintsy culture engaged in agriZarubintsy culture, documented by numerous finds of sickles.

Pobol suggested that the Zarubintsy culture experienced a transition from swidden to plough-type cultivation.

Disintegration of the Zarubintsy culture has been linked with the emigration of its population in several directions.

Density of settlements in the central region decreases, as late Zarubintsy culture groups appear radially, especially southward into the forest-steppe regions of the middle Dnieper, Desna, and southern Donets rivers.

The movement of Zarubintsy culture groups has been linked to an increasingly arid climate, whereby the population left the hillforts on high promontories and moved southward into river valleys.