Pages: 391-415 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp254391415
In the article, the hypothesis of the accessory carriers of a Poieneşti-Lucaşeuca culture to the historical Bastarnae is considered. The analysis of textual, archaeological, and numismatic sources does not allow us to connect the Bastarnae with this culture. The most probable carriers of a Poieneşti-Lucaşeuca culture were the Germanic tribe of the Sciri. According to ancient sources, the Bastarnae lived on the left bank of the Lower Danube and were Celts. At the first stage (the middle of the 4th to the first half of the 2nd centuries BC), the Bastarnae possessed sites of the La Tène culture of Transylvania. A shift is observed in the centre of the territory of the Bastarnae from Transylvania to Walachia. At the second stage (the second half of the 2nd–1st centuries BC), the Bastarnae left sites of the Padea–Panagyurski Colony group. In the 1st century BC, the Bastarnae played a vital role in the fight of the Getian-Thracian tribes of the Danube region against Rome.
Keywords: the Poienești-Lucașeuca culture, Bastarnae, Germans, Sciri, Celts, the Padea–Panagyurski Colony group, pre-Roman Period
Information about author:
Alexandr Drobushevski (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-7397-2594