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The
Oksywie Culture, also known as
Oxhöft 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, part of the city of
Gdynia in northern
Poland, where the first archaeological finds typical of this culture were discovered.
The replacement of the Oksywie culture by
Wielbark culture in the areas surrounding the mouth of the
Vistula is associated with
Jordanes' account of the migration of the
Goths from
Scandza (Scandinavia), when
Berig and his party defeated the
Vandals and the
Rugians, and settled on their land.
Archaeological research of last decades near
Pomerania in
Poland suggests the transition of Oksywie culture into Wielbark culture was peaceful. Its timing coincides with the appearance of new population of Scandinavians in a previously uninhabited area ("
no man's land") between the Oksywie and Przeworsk culture areas (Kokowski 1999). It appears likely that the new population which appeared on southern coast of the
Baltic in the early first century AD catalyzed the transformation of Oksywie culture into Wielbark culture and can be identified with the Berig party described by Jordanes. The area where they settled suggests that Berig could be invited to defend the tribes known as Oksywie culture against their southern (probably
Vandal) neighbors.
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