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Iron Age – Hallstatt period.
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt period) is divided into stages "Hallstatt C" and "Hallstatt D". The
distribution of iron was slow. At this time, since the eighth century B.C great Greek
colonization began, which is related to the appearance of the first written sources of
information about the European sites located away from the shores of the Mediterranean. Has
created a new unit - Hallstatt culture, which is divided into provinces “zachodniohalsztacką”
(eastern France, the basin of the upper and middle Rhine and Upper Danube),
“wschodniohalsztacką” (areas of the middle Danube) and “południowohalsztacką” (Drava and
the Sava river basin). In the early Iron Age was a significant development of pottery and
metal (bronze and iron). Proceeds wschodniohalsztackiej province led to the transformation of
individual sections of the population of the Lusatian culture, living in the area of today's
Polish. It is noticeable in the forms of vasculitis, how to decorate the surface of graphiting and
ordination techniques, the group developed a local Silesian involving painting style dishes.
At the beginning of the period as a result of the Scythian invasion broke down the
development of the Silesian group. Scythian invasions trail late sixth and early fifth century
BC shall be determined on the basis of burned castles, in which the remains are characteristic
of this people trójgraniaste arrowheads. Landmarks such as the Scythian found in
Witaszkowie and Kamieńcu.
After the collapse of the development of the group Silesia, on the face came out
“wschodniowielkopolska” group of the Lusatian culture. Characteristic of these is ceramics,
decorated with inlays made white cake. In addition to the already known earlier geometric
motifs on the vessels appeared anthropomorphic and zoomorphic motifs. The area of this
group was the most famous defensive structure Lusatian culture - a settlement in Biskupin,
built according to the latest research in the thirties dendrochronological eighth century BC
At the end of "Hallstatt C" climate became wetter and colder, in the new conditions proved to
be an effective model of economic and social culture associated with the Pomeranian. It
comes from a group of Kashubian Lusatian culture - which at the beginning of the Iron Age
was transformed, and in its place was a group of wielkowiejska departure from the custom of
the place of burial mounds embankments, the formation of flat cremation cemeteries.
Pomeranian culture is sometimes also referred to as the culture or the culture of the graves of
box facial urn. The population of this culture lived in the settlement of open houses with pole
construction. At the end of the Hallstatt period include - in addition to the seaside Wielkopolska, Lower Silesia, Pomerania Province, Chelmno and part of this region.