Vandals, Suebi and Alani in the Roman West duringthe Great Migration Period by Archaeological Data Вандалы, свевы и аланы на римском Западе в эпоху Великого переселения народов по археологическим данным En Ru

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This article addresses archaeological finds from the earliest stage of the Great Migration Period (late 4th to the first halfof the 5th century AD) in the territory of the Western Roman Empire related to Central and Eastern Europe by origin, whichcould testify to the migration of the Vandals, the Suebi and the Alans to the Roman West in 406 AD. These finds comprisedifferent types of crossbow brooches discovered in the Roman provinces in Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, which parallelsoriginate from the lands to the north of the Danube, in the zone where the Vandals and the Suebi lived by the moment of themigration to the West in 406 AD. Besides, some features of the funerary rite discovered in the early Great Migration Periodin Eastern Gaul, particularly ritually destroyed weapons, are met with analogies in the cemeteries of Central European barbarians, particularly in the Przeworsk culture. On the other hand, certain customs, such as artificial cranial deformation andsome objects, such as metal mirrors or gold plates and plaques, attest to the influence of the Alans.