page_title: Lipitsa culture
section_title: Culture and trade
hierarchical_section_title: Lipitsa culture / Culture and trade
caption_attribution_description: English: Pottery of the Lipița culture (associated with Costoboci, a Dacian tribe) located in the space between the Dniester and Moldova between 1st century BC to the 5th century AD. Archaeological Museum in Kraków. Deutsch: Die Tongefasse der Lipnica-Kultur(Gruppe) im Raum zwischen Dniester und Moldau in der Zeit vom 1 Jh. v. Chr. bis zum 5. Jahrhundert, Kostoboken (dakischen Volksstamme)
context_page_description: Lipitsa culture is the archaeological material culture supposedly representative of a Dacian tribe. It took its name from the Ukrainian village of Verkhnya Lypytsya, Rohatyn Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
context_section_description: Lipitsa culture is considered by the majority of scholars as representing the Dacian tribe of Costoboci.
  Roman influences are also visible in the material culture. Likewise, Germanic people from the Przeworsk culture, but also Celts and Sarmatians, came in contact with the Lipitsa people. It seems that no Early Slavs made contact with this area yet, as the first Slavic artifacts in today's Moldavia and Bukovina are not dated earlier than the 5th and 6th centuries AD.
  In the first decades of the 3rd century, Lipitsa culture of the Costoboci restricted its territory and gave birth to a new archaeological culture, that of the Carpathian Tumuli culture. A part of the Costoboci inhabiting the Subcarpathian hills withdrew southwards into the mountains, while a small part migrated in Moldavia, joining the Carpi, another Dacian tribe. In any case, some did remain in the northern area of the Lipitsa culture, despite the pressure of the newly arrived East Germanic tribes.
  The largest part of the territory of Lipitsa and Carpathian Tumuli archaeological cultures is now inhabited by the Hutsuls, both in Ukraine and in Romania.
caption: 2nd century pottery of the Lipitsa culture in display at the Archaeological Museum of Kraków.
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