2020
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Michel Kazanski, « Aestii et Attila: à propos des contacts de la population de la civilisation de Sambie-Natangie avec le Danube moyen à l’époque hunnique et post-hunnique », HAL-SHS : archéologie, ID : 10670/1.x64gu0
This paper considers the archaeological evidence of the contacts between the population of theSambia-Natangia culture (Aestii of the written sources) which occupied the area of the modern Kaliningrad Oblast,with the Middle-Danubian region in the Hun and post-Hun time (5th — mid-6th century). Danubian objects of theGreat Migration period found in the territory of Sambia-Natangia culture are rare. Moreover, Danubian objects ofthe 5th–6th century are better represented among the southern, western and eastern neighbours of the people of theSambia-Natangia culture. It seems that Aestii were ‘isolated’ by their neighbours while the contacts of the Balticregion with the Middle Danube area took place rather to the east and west via the Neman and Vistula and werenot touching essentially the zone of the Sambia-Natangia culture.