Ipotesti–Candesti culture

The Ipotesti–Candesti culture (Russian: Ипотешти-кындештская культура) was an archaeological culture in Eastern Europe. It developed in the mid-6th century by the merger of elements of the Prague-Penkovka and Prague-Korchak cultures and local cultures (including Germanic) in the area between Prut and Lower Danube.[1] It stretched in the Lower Danube over territory in Romania and Moldavia.[2] The population of the area was made up of Romanized descendants of Daco-Getic, Germanic and Slavic tribes.[3] There are views that it derived from the Chernyakhov culture and represented a group of the Antes.[2] The houses were identical to the Slavic huts of the Prague-Korchak and Penkovka areas.[4] The sites in Romania are known as Ipotești-Candești-Ciurel[5] (Russian: Ипотешти-Кындешти-Чурел)[6] or Ipotești-Ciurel-Cândești.[7]

The Prague-Penkov-Kolochin group of archaeological cultures identified with early Slavic populations in the 6th and 7th centuries, and Ipotesti–Candesti with local influences.