Bogaczewo culture
The Bogaczewo culture (in Polish Kultura bogaczewska ) was an archaeological culture of the pre-Roman Iron Age from approx. 450 to 250 BC. In today's north-eastern Poland .
Distribution area
The Bogaczewo culture can be found in the Masurian Lake District : in the Pojezierze Mrągowskie ( Sensburg Lake District ), in the northern Równina mazurska ( Masurian Plain ), the Pojezierze Ełkie ( Lyck Lake District ) and the Suwałszczyna ( Sudauen ).
In the north and west, the West Baltic bordered Bogaczewo culture to the West Baltic cairns culture , to the east by the East Baltic stick ceramic culture .
It is named after a site near Bogaczewo ( German Bogatzewen , 1927 to 1945 Reichensee ), in the Gmina Giżycko (rural community Lötzen ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Material culture
There are influences of the Pomeranian face urn culture and the La Tène culture . Bronze and enamel were produced in large quantities. The amber trade played a major role. Objects from Scandinavia, the East Baltic region and the Mediterranean region (Roman coins) were found.
Funeral culture
Corpse burns were buried in urns, sometimes with whole horses.
Succession cultures
From the Bogaczewo culture , the Olsztyn group of the West Baltic culture developed in the 1st century AD .
literature
- Wilhelm Gaerte : Prehistory of East Prussia , Königsberg 1929
- Piotr Koczanowski, Janusz K. Kozłowski: Najdawniejsze dzieje ziem polskich (do VII w.) , Wielka Historia Polski , Vol. 1, Kraków 1998