Western Baltic culture
The Western Baltic culture (Lithuanian: Vakarų baltų kultūra; Polish: Kultura zachodniobałtyjska also known as krąg zachodniobałtyjski (West Baltic circle), Russian: Западнобалтская культура, romanized: Zapadnobaltskaya kul'tura) was the westernmost branch of the Balts, representing a distinct archaeological culture of the Bronze Age and Iron Age, along the southern coast of the Baltic Sea.
[1] Most of the Western Balts arose from the West Baltic barrow culture [lt] dating back to the early Iron Age.
The Western Baltic culture includes: According to Marija Gimbutas, the Baltic culture of the Early and Middle Bronze Age covered a territory which, at its maximal extent, included "all of Pomerania almost to the mouth of the Oder, and the whole Vistula basin to Silesia in the south-west" before the spread of the Lusatian culture to the region and was inhabited by the ancestors of the later (Baltic) Old Prussians.
According to Tacitus, these areas were inhabited by the Aesti, while Ptolemy speaks of the Galindians and the Sudines.
The Balts decorated their pots by creating "deep incisions and ridges around the neck."
pale green (centre) – Przeworsk culture
dark green – Nordic group
dark red – Jastorf culture
yellow – Harpstedt-Nienburger group
orange – Celtic groups
brown – Oksywie culture
pink – East Baltic forest zone cultures
magenta – West Baltic cairn culture
turquoise – Milogrady culture
black – Estonian group