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Archaeologists Reveal Celtic Rites Culture in Ancient Ukraine
Graves found in Poland and Ukraine contain purposely broken weapons, we learn thanks to grave robbers having a civic moment
haaretz.com
Grave robbers suddenly overcome by a sense of civic responsibility have helped shed light on the Celtic influences on a powerful Germanic culture in Poland and Ukraine 2,300 years ago. Archaeologists call this culture the Przeworsk (pronounced “Perevorsk”), based on the name of the Polish town where they were first discovered.
The lessons learned from the graves were reported by Volodymyr Sydorovych, research fellow at the Lviv Regional Council at the History and Local Lore Museum, in the Ukrainian journal “Arheologia” in 2022. The paper is based on archaeological investigation done in 2019.
One may wonder, who are the Przeworsk? It depends on whom you ask.
Most archaeologists identify the Przeworsk people as a powerful coalition of ancient Germanic tribes known in historical sources as the Lugians (or a variation of that name). These tribes lived in modern-day Poland and western Ukraine, and appear in writings by first-century historians and geographers such as Tacitus and Strabo.
Alternatively, some identify them with the Vandals who would later sack Rome in 455 C.E. Yet another interpretation, prevailing among historians today, is that the Lugians and the Vandals were the same people.
As for the archaeological evidence, it indicates that the Przeworsks were locals living in central and southern Poland from about 2,300 years ago, who spread east beyond the Vistula River (an important ancient trade route) into Western Ukraine in the first century C.E. The Przework seem to have persisted in Ukraine up to about 1,600 years ago and their material culture clearly shows influences of Celtic culture (aka the “La Tène culture”), which dominated Iron Age Europe from about 450 B.C.E. until Rome ventured beyond the Alps.
Celtic influence on the Przeworsk is evident in their metal-smithing and burial rites – including the practice of damaging the weapons placed with the dead. |
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