06/04/2026
⚔️ THE JASTORF CULTURE (600 BC – 50 BC) 🗺️
Before the rise of the Germanic tribes known to Rome, there was the Jastorf Culture.
🌲 Emerging around 600 BC in northern Europe, Jastorf communities occupied lands that now include northern Germany and parts of Denmark.
🔥 Over centuries, their settlements expanded across the North European Plain, laying the foundations for many of the Germanic peoples that would later shape European history.
🏺 Distinctive pottery and burial customs.
⚔️ Expanding tribal networks.
🌍 Growing influence across northern Europe.
As Celtic power dominated much of Central Europe, the Jastorf world developed its own identity in the north.
By 50 BC, the descendants of these communities stood on the edge of history, soon to encounter the expanding Roman Republic.
👀 Watch the map reveal the growth of Jastorf Culture across 550 years of Iron Age Europe.
💬 Could this culture be the cradle of the early Germanic world?