Baltic culture in Pomerania

The green area is the Przeworsk culture:
dark green - Nordic group
dark red - Jastorf culture
yellow - Harpstedt-Nienburger group
orange - Celtic groups
light red - east-Baltic cultures of forest zone
violet - West-Baltic culture of cairns
turquoise - Milogrady culture
black - Estonic group

Art and Structures

The Balts decorated their pots by creating "deep incisions and ridges around the neck." Baltic graves consisted of huts made out of timber, or stone costs with floors of pavement "encircled by timber posts", according to Marija Gimbutas.[1]

Location and Territory

The term Pomerania Balts, or rather Western Balts, refers to Baltic people, who as early as the bronze age may have inhabited parts of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, an area now known as Pomerania.[2] According to Marija Gimbutas, the Baltic culture of the Early and Middle Bronze Age covered a territory which, at its maximal extent, included "all of Pomerania almost to the mouth of the Oder, and the whole Vistula basin to Silesia in the south-west" before the spread of the Lusatian culture to the region and was inhabited by the ancestors of the later (Baltic) Old Prussians.[1]


See also

References

  1. 1 2 Marija Gimbutas, The Balts Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine., pps. 27, 61, last accessed 4/20/2011
  2. ↑ see map page 63: Largest extent of Baltic people in The Balts, Marija Gimbutas Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine.

3. ^ ", pg 59-62, last accessed 5/12/18</ref>

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