Lusatian culture

• Biconical urns
• The pottery
• Cylinder neck vessels

The Lusatian culture is being dated from about 1300 BC ( Bronze Age ) to about 500 BC ( Iron Age ). The Iron Age section is treated separately as Bill Strand culture. Important subsequent culture is the East Germanic Przeworsk culture (3rd century BC to 5th century AD ).

The Lusatian culture is not to be confused with the Lebus Lausitz Group or Luboszyce culture.

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History of Research

The term " Lausitzischer type", according to the Lausitz from which came the first finds, goes back to the German physician Rudolf Virchow.

Dissemination

The Lusatian culture was spread by the Saale, Spree to the Danube, the Vistula and the Slovak Ore Mountains ( Central Slovakia ). Adjacent were other groups of the urn field culture and to the northwest of the Nordic Bronze Age in the West.

Important Locations

• Biskupin in Poland, reconstructed lowland castle
• Cemetery of Niederkaina in Saxony
• Cemetery of Liebersee in Saxony
• Cemetery of Kietrz in Poland
• Römerschanze at Potsdam, castle
• Slag Wall on the mountain Löbauer
• Burg (Spreewald ), " Schlossberg " lowland castle

Burial customs

One of the essential features of the Lusatian culture are the great burial grounds, which were often over many generations, that is, over some 100 years, occupied. Among them, many find with well over 1000 graves, such as the burial ground of Kietrz with previously discovered over 4000 burials. In addition to tons of ceramic, there are also clay rattles.

Human Settlements

As for most other Bronze Age cultures of central Europe were settlements built of post typical of the Lusatian culture. It shows the basis of surface finds and excavation results, a picture of hamlet -like settlements scale, which is preferably located on south-facing slopes near watercourses.

A few recognizable house floor plans show proportions of up to 8 × 28 meters. This partition walls separating different areas within the houses from each other. The walls of these buildings were made of wattle lehmverputzem, as evidenced by finds of daub with wood and braided negatives.

Strongholds are found both on ridges and in marshy lowlands.

Ethnic interpretation

We know nothing for lack of written records about the language spoken by the bearers of this culture language. Was the beginning of the 20th century by German researchers as Gustaf Kossinna a carpal - Dacian, later, claims based on Alfred Götze, a nordillyrische " ethnicity", while the Czech pic and especially the Polish researchers Jozef Kostrzewski Urslawen saw in them. For a (pre-) Germanic linguistic identity or ethnicity of the bearer of the Lusatian culture is the fact that the range of such culture around the time of the Germanic of the (East ) strains of the Przeworsk culture was settled and there is no evidence of major migration movements in this space in is the second half of the 1st millennium BC.