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The Przeworsk culture is part of an Iron Age
Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
 archaeological complex that dates from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century. It was located in what is now central and southern Poland and parts of eastern Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia
Carpathian Ruthenia

Carpathian Ruthenia, List of acronyms and initialisms: A#AK Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Rusinko, Subcarpathian Rus, Subcarpathia is a small region in Central Europe, now mostly in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast , easternmost Slovakia , Poland's Lemkivshchyna and Romanian Maramures....
 ranging between the Oder and the middle and upper Vistula
Vistula

The Vistula , is the longest river in Poland at 1,047 km in length. It drains an area of 194,424 km? , of which 168,699 km? lies within Poland ....
 Rivers into the headwaters of the Dniester
Dniester

The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe....
 and Tisza
Tisza

The Tisza is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in Ukraine, with the White Tisza in the Chornohora and Black Tisza in the Gorgany range, flows partially along the Romanian border, enters Hungary at Tiszabecs, marks Slovakia-Hungarian border, passes through Hungary, and falls into the Danube in central Vojvodina in Serbia...
 Rivers.






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The Przeworsk culture is part of an Iron Age
Iron Age

In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent....
 archaeological complex that dates from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century. It was located in what is now central and southern Poland and parts of eastern Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia
Carpathian Ruthenia

Carpathian Ruthenia, List of acronyms and initialisms: A#AK Transcarpathian Ruthenia, Rusinko, Subcarpathian Rus, Subcarpathia is a small region in Central Europe, now mostly in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast , easternmost Slovakia , Poland's Lemkivshchyna and Romanian Maramures....
 ranging between the Oder and the middle and upper Vistula
Vistula

The Vistula , is the longest river in Poland at 1,047 km in length. It drains an area of 194,424 km? , of which 168,699 km? lies within Poland ....
 Rivers into the headwaters of the Dniester
Dniester

The Dniester is a river in Eastern Europe....
 and Tisza
Tisza

The Tisza is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in Ukraine, with the White Tisza in the Chornohora and Black Tisza in the Gorgany range, flows partially along the Romanian border, enters Hungary at Tiszabecs, marks Slovakia-Hungarian border, passes through Hungary, and falls into the Danube in central Vojvodina in Serbia...
 Rivers. It takes its name from the village near the town Przeworsk
Przeworsk

Przeworsk [] is a town in south-eastern Poland with 15,675 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008. Since 1999 it has been in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, and is the capital of Przeworsk County....
 where the first artefacts were found.

The immediately preceding Pomeranian culture
Pomeranian culture

The Pomeranian culture, also Pomeranian or Pomerelian Face Urn culture was an Iron Age culture in Pomerelia, northern Poland. About 650 BC, it evolved from the Lusatian culture between the lower Vistula and Parseta rivers, and subsequently expanded southward....
 occupied the same area. To the east, in what is now northern Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 and southern Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
, was the Zarubintsy culture
Zarubintsy culture

The Zarubintsy culture was one of the major archaeological cultures which flourished in the area north of the Black Sea along the upper Dnieper and Pripyat Rivers, stretching west towards the Western Bug from the 3rd century BC or 2nd century BC BC until the 2nd century AD....
, to which it is linked as a larger archaeological complex. In the east and to the north of the Zarubintsy culture was the Chernoles culture
Chernoles culture

The Chernoles culture is an Iron Age archaeological unit dating ca. 750?200 BC. It was located in the forest-steppe between the Dniester and Dnieper Rivers, in what is now northern Ukraine....
, which is usually identified as a very early Slavic
Slavic peoples

The Slavic Peoples are a linguistic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in eastern Europe. From the early 6th century they spread from their original homeland to inhabit most of eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans....
 community, representing a stage near to Proto-Slavic.

At its northeastern edge, the Goths
Goths

The Goths were East Germanic tribes who, in the 3rd and 4th centuries, invasion the Roman Empire and later adopted Arian Christianity. In the 5th and 6th centuries, divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula and Italy....
 developed the Wielbark culture
Wielbark Culture

Wielbark culture also known as Willenberg culture was a pre-literate culture that archaeologists have identified with the Goths; it appeared during the first half of the 1st century AD....
 along the lower and middle Vistula. To the northeast of the Goths, there was a Baltic
Balts

For the similarly named ethnic group inhabiting northern Pakistani Kashmir, see Balti peopleThe Balts or Baltic peoples , defined as speakers of one of the Baltic languages, a branch of the Indo-European languages family, are descended from a group of Indo-Europeans tribes who settled the area between lower Vistula and upper D...
 (and likely Baltic-speaking
Baltic languages

The Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the Indo-European languages language family and spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe....
) culture, perhaps the Aesti
Aesti

The Aesti were a people described by the Ancient Rome historian Tacitus in his treatise Germania . According to this account, the Aestii lived on the shore of the Suebian Sea , eastward of the Suiones and westward of the Sitones....
.

Roman-era writers report this area as being occupied by Veneti as well as Lugians
Lugii

The Lugii, Lugi, Lygii, Ligii, Lugiones, Lygians, Ligians, Lugians, or Lougoi were a tribe of Indo-European people origin....
, to the South. A substantial effort has been expended in the past to characterize the latter as an early Slavic
Slavic languages

File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia....
-speaking community. Modern thinking, however, leans towards assigning the culture to an association of tribes of proto-Slavic, Germanic, or Celtic origin. The early Burgundians
Burgundians

File:Roman Empire 125.svgThe Burgundians were an East Germanic language Germanic tribes which may have emigrated from mainland Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr , and from there to mainland Europe....
 are known to have been settled in portions of the area towards the end of this cultural period. The Veneti who were later Slavicized (see Relation between Veneti and Slavs) were found here.

See also

  • Lendians
    Lendians

    The Lendians were a Lechitic languages tribe recorded to have inhabited the ill-defined area in East Lesser Poland and Red Ruthenia between the 7th and 11th centuries....


Resources

  • JP Mallory
    JP Mallory

    James Patrick Mallory is an Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-European studies. Mallory is a professor at the Queen's University, Belfast....
    , "Przeworsk culture", Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.