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Jastorf culture
Geographical range
Northern Germany and southern Scandinavia
Period
Iron Age
Dates
circa 6th century BC – circa 1st century BC
Preceded by
Nordic Bronze Age
Followed by
Roman Iron Age
Archeological cultures of Central Europe in the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age: Nordic group House Urns culture Oksywie culture late phase Jastorf culture Gubin group of Jastorf Przeworsk culture Western Balt culture Eastern Balt forest zone cultures Zarubintsy culture Celtic
The Jastorf culture was an Iron Age material culture in what is now northern Germany and the southern Scandinavian Peninsula,[1] spanning the 6th to 1st centuries BC, forming the southern part of the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The culture evolved out of the Nordic Bronze Age.
^J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, p.321
The Jastorfculture was an Iron Age material culture in what is now northern Germany and the southern Scandinavian Peninsula, spanning the 6th to 1st centuries...
with the Germanic tribes, the earliest evidence of Germanic culture dates to the Jastorfculture in Northern Germany and Denmark. Contact with Germanic tribes...
material cultures of the region, including the Jastorfculture to its west. To the east, the Przeworsk culture is associated with the Zarubintsy culture. Scholars...
indigenous Northern European elements, the Germanic culture started to exist in the Jastorfculture that developed out of the Nordic Bronze Age. It came...
Archaeologists usually connect the early Germanic peoples with the Jastorfculture of the Pre-Roman Iron Age, which is found in Denmark (southern Scandinavia)...
with an initial decline in population, the southern part of the culture, the Jastorfculture, was in expansion southwards. It consequently appears that climate...
to the Jastorfculture, while the Lusatian culture of the East was succeeded by the Pomeranian culture, then in 150 BC by the Oksywie culture, and at...
Age in Scandinavia and Northern Europe begins around 500 BC with the Jastorfculture, and is taken to last until c. 800 AD and the beginning Viking Age...
peripheral to Jastorfculture, very likely originated as Pomeranian culture populations influenced by the Jastorf cultural model. Jastorf communities established...
Nordic Bronze Age was succeeded by the Pre-Roman Iron Age and the Jastorfculture. The Nordic Bronze Age is often considered ancestral to the Germanic...
dispersed towards the Rhine from the direction of the Jastorfculture, which was a Celtic influenced culture that existed in the Pre-Roman Iron Age, in the region...
group would have formed as a dialect of Proto-Germanic in the late Jastorfculture (ca. 1st century BC). During the Early Middle Ages, the West Germanic...
The Zarubintsy, Zarubyntsi or Zarubinets culture was a culture that, from the 3rd century BC until the 1st century AD, flourished in the area north of...
thought to date from the Nordic Bronze Age, early Iron Age, or the Jastorfculture. From southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, they expanded south...
culture. From 750-600 BCE, areas formerly occupied by the Elp culture emerge as the probably-Germanic Harpstedt culture west of the Germanic Jastorf culture...
The Pomeranian culture, also Pomeranian or Pomerelian Face Urn culture was an Iron Age culture with origins in parts of the area south of the Baltic Sea...
covered almost its entire length, forming a contact zone with the Jastorfculture, i.e. the locus of early Celtic-Germanic cultural contact. In Roman...
runic inscriptions. The western group would have formed in the late Jastorfculture, and the eastern group may be derived from the 1st-century variety...
Valsgärde, Uppsala County, Sweden Viking Age Järvsta, Gävle, Sweden Jastorfculture Mühlen Eichsen, Schwerin, Germany Alemannic grave fields, dating from...
of local cultures, most with roots in earlier traditions modified by influences from the (Celtic) La Tène culture, (Germanic) Jastorfculture beyond the...
The House Urns culture (German: Hausurnenkultur) was an early Iron Age culture of the 7th century BC in central Germany, in the Region between Harz Mountains...
assigned to the western group formed from Proto-Germanic in the late Jastorfculture (c. 1st century BC). The West Germanic group is characterized by a...
language group, which had features from Proto-Germanic in the late Jastorfculture (ca. 1st century BC). The West Germanic group is characterized by a...
became the Neumark fell within the area of the Lusatian culture. In the Iron Age the Jastorfculture operated in this region, identified sometimes with Germanic...
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