О центрах власти у славян: днестровские клады VII века
About the Centers of Power among the Slavs: Hoards of the 7th Century in the Dniester Basin

Author(s): Michel Kazanski
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, Social history, Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: chiefdoms; Sclavini; Antae; the Dniester-Prut interfluve;Byzantine influence;
Summary/Abstract: The article treats a small group of hoards in the Dniester basin, in the territory of the Prague culture, correlated with the Sclavines of the 5th — 7th centuries. These are the findings in Krylos, Zalesye, Velykyi Kuchuriv. Apparently, they mark a center of power, corresponding to the area of dense Slavic settlement. Byzantinization of the chiefs’ elite is evidenced for the Balkan Slavs in the 7th century. The hoards in the Dniester basin also demonstrate a strong Byzantine influence on the material culture of the Slavic chiefs’ elites.

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