page_title: Gothiscandza
section_title: Archaeology
hierarchical_section_title: Gothiscandza / Identification / Archaeology
caption_attribution_description: The red area is the extent of the en:Wielbark culture in the first half of the en:3rd century. The green area is the en:Przeworsk culture, the yellow area is a Baltic culture (en:Aesti?), and the pink area is the Debczyn Culture. The dark blue area is the en:Roman Empire My own map, based on en:User:Dbachmann's blank map. The extent of the Wielbark culture is based on Zbigniew Babik: "Najstarsza warstwa nazewnicza na ziemiach polskich" Cracow 2001. See also John Haywood, Cassell's Atlas of World History, Cassel Reference, 2001. pp. 1.21, 2.19.
context_page_description: According to a tale related by Jordanes in his Getica, Gothiscandza was the first settlement area of the Goths after their migration from Scandza during the first half of the 1st century CE. He claimed that the name was still in use in his own day.
context_section_description: In the 1st century a new culture appeared at the mouth of the Vistula, called the Wielbark Culture replacing the local Oksywie culture. The most salient component of Scandinavian influence in the 1st century AD is the introduction of Scandinavian burial traditions such as stone circles and the stelae, showing that those who buried their dead preferred to do so according to Scandinavian traditions.
  However, there is also archaeological evidence of previous Scandinavian influence in the area during the Nordic Bronze Age and the Pre-Roman Iron Age, perhaps corresponding to the arrival of Rugians and Vandals.
  In the 3rd century AD, the Wielbark culture spread into Scythia, where it formed the Gothic Chernyakhov culture.
caption: The red area is the extent of the Wielbark Culture in the first half of the 3rd century. The dark pink area is Gotland and the green area is the traditional extent of Götaland
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