Doll germ culture

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Baltic cultures of the Iron Age.
  • Dollkeim group
  • Olsztyn Group ( Galinden )
  • Sudauer Group ( Jatwinger )
  • Memel group ( cures )
  • Line ceramic culture
  • Milograd culture
  • Dnieper Dvina culture
  • Pomeranian face urn culture
  • The Dollkeim culture or Samländisch-Natangische Kultur (Polish Kultura Dollkeim-Kovrovo ) was an archaeological group of cultures of the West Baltic culture of the late Iron Age (about 1st-9th centuries) in Samland in what is now northeastern Poland and the Kaliningrad area .

    Distribution area

    The discovery area of ​​the Dollkeim culture roughly corresponds to the historical Prussian populated areas of Samland and Natangen , hence the name Samland -Natang culture .

    The culture is named after the Dollkeim site (former East Prussian Fischhausen district ), (today Kowrowo / Коврово ( Selenogradsk Rajon )).

    Funeral culture

    Characteristic for the Dollkeim culture is the partial burial of burned human bodies with unburned horse skeletons.

    Some of the graves were richly furnished.

    economy

    Iron was an important material, amber was obviously a special commodity .

    In graves were u. a. Roman coins from the time of the emperors Domitian , Trajan , Hadrian , Antoninus Pius , Alexander Severus , Gordian III. , Glass and amber beads, a gold bracelet, silver fibulas, daggers, narrow axes, spurs, carving knives, sickles, buckles, snaffles and a whetstone.

    Settlements

    In addition to the settlements on rivers and lakes, there were also walled systems on mountain ledges and plateaus.

    literature

    • Gaerte, Wilhelm: Prehistory of East Prussia , Königsberg 1929
    • Kaczanowski, Piotr, Kozłowski, Janusz Krzysztof: Najdawniejsze dzieje ziem polskich ( Wielka Historia Polski , Vol. 1), Kraków 1998