Aestii et Attila: à propos des contacts de la population de la civilisation de Sambie-Natangie avec le Danube moyen à l’époque hunnique et post-hunnique

Эстии и Аттила: о контактах населения самбийско-натангийской культуры со Средним Дунаем в гуннское и постгуннское время

Michel Kazanski (1, 2)

1 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2 OM - ORIENT ET MÉDITERRANÉE : Textes, Archéologie, Histoire

This paper considers the archaeological evidence of the contacts between the population of the Sambia-Natangia culture (Aestii of the written sources) which occupied the area of the modern Kaliningrad Oblast, with the Middle-Danubian region in the Hun and post-Hun time (5th — mid-6th century). Danubian objects of the Great Migration period found in the territory of Sambia-Natangia culture are rare. Moreover, Danubian objects of the 5th–6th century are better represented among the southern, western and eastern neighbours of the people of the Sambia-Natangia culture. It seems that Aestii were ‘isolated’ by their neighbours while the contacts of the Baltic region with the Middle Danube area took place rather to the east and west via the Neman and Vistula and were not touching essentially the zone of the Sambia-Natangia culture.

Mots clés: Aestii; Sambia-Natangia culture; Great Migration; Danube; contacts

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Archéologie et Préhistoire

Michel Kazanski. Эстии и Аттила: о контактах населения самбийско-натангийской культуры со Средним Дунаем в гуннское и постгуннское время. Археологические вести, 2020, 27, pp.131-152. ⟨hal-02931686⟩