Oksywie culture (brown)

The Oksywie Culture was an archaeological culture which existed in the area of modern day Eastern Pomerania around the lower Vistula river from the 2nd century BC to the early 1st century AD.

The Oksywie culture is named after the village Oksywie, now part of the city of Gdynia in northern Poland, where the first archaeological finds typical of this culture were discovered.

Archaeological research of last decades near Pomerania in Poland suggests the transition of the local comonent of the Pomeranian culture into the Oksywie culture in the 2nd century BC. Its timing coincides with the mass migration of a new population from northern Germany - perhaps from the neighbouring Jastorf culture and not a culture in Scandinavia - into the Pomeranian culture areas. It appears likely that the new population which appeared on the southern coast of the Baltic in the early 1st century AD - probably from the east (i.e. the east Baltic cultures and/or the eastern components of the Przeworsk culture) - catalyzed the transformation of the Oksywie culture into the Wielbark culture. The Wielbark culture may have developed a close relationship with not only the local eastern components of the Przeworsk culture, which may have been assimilated into the Wielbark culture, but also, by trade, groups of people in Scandinavia although the Goths as a tribe cannot be identified with a Nordic origin whatsoever.^[1]

See also[link]

Ancient Germanic culture portal

• Rugians
• Lemovii
• Goths

Notes[link]

Sources[link]

• A Polish Archaeology Article by Tadeusz Makiewicz
• (German) Oxhöftkultur
• (German) Andrzej Kokowski "Archäologie der Goten" 1999 (ISBN 83-907341-8-4)