Tumulus culture
The Lusatian culture developed as the preceding [[Trzciniec culture]] experienced influences from the [[Tumulus culture]] of the [[Middle Bronze Age]], essentially incorporating the local communities into the socio-political network of Iron Age Europe. It formed part of the [[Urnfield]] systems found from eastern [[France]], southern Germany and Austria to [[Hungary]] and the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] in northwestern Germany and [[Scandinavia]]. It was followed by the [[Billendorf culture]] of the [[Early Iron Age]] in the West. In Poland, the Lusatian culture is taken have spanned part of the Iron Age as well (there is only a terminological difference) and was succeeded in Montelius VIIbc in the northern ranges around the mouth of [[Vistula]] by the [[Pomeranian culture]] spreading south.