Wielbark Culture or Willenberg Culture was an archaeological culture which appeared during the first half of the 1st century AD, and replaced the local Oksywie Culture, a culture which was part of the Przeworsk culture. It is identified with the Goths.
Wielbark Culture - Distribution.
The Wielbark Culture started out covering the same area as the Oksywie Culture reaching from Gdańsk to Chełmno. Later it reached into the Kashubian and Krajenskian lakelands and stretched southwards into the region of ...
The Wielbark culture is associated with Jordanes' account of the Goths leaving Scandza (Scandinavia) and their settlement in Gothiscandza. According to Jordanes they pushed away the local Rugians and Vandals when settling in the area.
Gothiscandza was located at the mouth of the Vistula, and this area was given as the land of the Gutones (Pliny the Elder) or Gothones (Tacitus):
Beyond the Lygians dwell the Gothones, under the rule of a king; and thence held in subjection somewhat stricter than the ...
Between the Przeworsk Culture and the Wielbark Culture there was a clear separation and there appears to have been no detectable contacts.
The people of the Wielbark Culture used both inhumation and cremation techniques for burying their dead. Whether they used one or the other varied from site to site and it is believed to have depended on family traditions.
A characteristic of this culture, which it had in common with southern Scandinavia, was the raising of stone covered mounds, stone circles ...
The Wielbark Culture started out covering the same area as the Oksywie Culture reaching from Gdańsk to Chełmno. Later it reached into the Kashubian and Krajenskian lakelands and stretched southwards into the region of Poznań.
In the first half of the 3rd century AD, the Wielbark Culture left settlements by the Baltic Sea, except for the areas adjacent to the Vistula, and expanded into Mazovia and Lubelszczyzna on the eastern side of the Vistula reaching into Uk ...
