[gothic-l] Gothic connections

[george knysh]

--- Tore Gannholm <tore.gannholm at swipnet.se> wrote:
> I can recommend a new book "Gothic connections,
> Contacts between eastern
> Scandinavia and the southern Baltic coast 1000 BC -
> 500 AD" by Anders
> Kaliff   ISBN 91-506-1482-7 Department of
> Archaeology and Ancient History,
> Uppsala University  Uppsala 2001
**********////// For the typical
> Lusatian pottery Jan Dabrowski has suggested the
> term "Pottery of Lusatian
> style" ("Stil der Lausitzer Keramik"), in the same
> manner as the term
> "Hallstatt-style" is used. Cultural groups, with
> pottery fitting into this
> defintion are found within the South Scandinavian
> Bronze Age culture, as
> well as within the so called Knoviz-Milavce and
> Wysocko cultures, in the
> eastern Lusatian periphery of Pomerania. (Dabrowski
> 1988, p.89)  The
> Wysocko culture was located just west of the lower
> part of the Vistula
> basin, in the same area where the Wielbark culture
> is formed centuries
> later."

*****GK: Actually this is incorrect. The so-called
"Wysots'ka kultura" (named after a village in the
area) was an archaeological phenomenon of the period
1000-500 BC. It was located in contemporary Western
Ukraine (straddling the western provinces of Lviv and
Ternopil'). Ukrainian archaeologists agree with Polish
archaeologists in considering it a branch of the
Lusatian super-culture, in fact as its easternmost
group. But these Wysotskians, as a border group, also
had very strong ties with the pre-Scythian cultures of
Ukraine. Urn burials constituted only some 5% of the
total in their cemeteries. The Wysotskians were
incorporated into the rising Scythian power in the 6th
c. BC and totally acculturated with it. They were
undoubtedly the "elite group" which facilitated
contacts between Scandinavia and southeastern Europe
in the 1rst millennium BC. Prestige objects from
Central and Northern Europe and Italy were common here
in the pre-Scythian period. Paradoxically warriors
from the area of the Wysotska culture probably
participated in the Scythian assaults on Lusatia in
500-450 BC which were largely instrumental in the
demise and transformation of this culture. The
Gotho-Gepidic Wielbark culture arrived here (i.e.
where the Wysotska group was earlier) in the late 2nd
c. AD.*********


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