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Ażurowa tarczka z Kielar. Przyczynek do badan nad dalekosiężnymi powiązaniami grupy olsztyńskiej

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Rudnicki M.

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2009-2010

vol. Tom VIII (XLIX), fasc. B

119-132

The Olsztyn Group which developed in Masurian Lake District in the later phase of the Migration Period (the so-called Phase E), is abundant in finds which testify to its far-reaching connections. Some part of many finds of various provenance which are discovered at the sites of the olsztyn Group are artefacts which may be related to influences coming from the territory of the Avar Khaganate. The open-work badge pendant from Kielary, mentioned in the title of the paper, belongs to the most remarkable finds of this kind. The inflow of these finds begins in the last thirty years of the 6th c. and coincides with the concurrently recorded inflow of elements of culture of the early Slavs. Some finds of that wave, which to a lesser degree also encompassed other categories of artefacts, such as stirrups, became permanently rooted in the material culture of the West Balts. The inflow of discussed finds into the territory of the olsztyn Group lasted in all probability until the decline of the group at the end of the 7th c. Some finds coming from the territory of the Avar Khanagate are not, however, genetically related to the culture of the nomads. Instead of it, these most probably belong to Germanic people inhabiting the territory of the Carpathian Basin after it had been occupied by the Avars. These Germanic people cooperated with the Avars and gradually took over some elements of culture of the nomads. A hypothesis may therefore be proposed that finds which testify to influences from the territory of the Khaganate and are discovered in the territory of the olsztyn Group found their way to Masuria in result of contacts with people of Germanic (perhaps Gepid) origin. Such contacts may be a left-over of earlier connections from the period before the conquest of the territory of the Carpathian Basin by the Avars. Problems of contacts of the West Balt people with the Avars require more in-depth studies, first of all with regard to the nature of such contacts, but also concerning the course and the way of functioning ofcommunication routes.

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Ażurowa tarczka z Kielar. Przyczynek do badan nad dalekosiężnymi powiązaniami grupy olsztyńskiej