Jastorf culture

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The Jastorf culture was an early Iron Age archaeological culture in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia, regarded as one of the earliest clearly identifiable Germanic cultural groups.

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Jastorf culture canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Germanic archaeological culture
Iron Age culture
archaeological culture
associatedWithEthnicGroup early Germanic peoples
proto-Germanic speakers
chronologicallyOverlaps Hallstatt culture
La Tène culture
country Germany
discoveredAt Jastorf near Uelzen
economyBasedOn agriculture
animal husbandry
ironworking
follows Nordic Bronze Age
hasBurialCustom cremation
urnfield burial
hasCharacteristicArtifact belt hooks
handmade pottery
iron fibulae
iron weapons
simple brooches
hasChronologicalPhase classical Jastorf phase
early Jastorf phase
late Jastorf phase
hasCoreArea Lower Elbe region
linked to: Elbe–Weser region

Lüneburg Heath
hasEndTime circa 1st century BC
hasLanguageFamily Germanic languages
hasMaterial bronze
iron
pottery
hasSettlementType farmsteads
open settlements
hasStartTime circa 600 BC
hasSubculture Bornholm group
Haderslev group
linked to: Haderslev

Harpstedt-Nienburg group
Ripdorf group
Seedorf group
influenced Harz region Iron Age groups
early Germanic culture
influencedBy Nordic Bronze Age culture
linked to: Nordic Bronze Age
locatedIn Jutland Peninsula
Lower Saxony
Schleswig-Holstein
northern Germany
linked to: Northern Germany

southern Scandinavia
namedAfter Jastorf
partOf Pre-Roman Iron Age
linked to: Germanic Iron Age
region Northern Europe

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Germanic Iron Age follows Jastorf culture