The last known Poeneshti-Lukashovka object

From: george knysh
Message: 67518
Date: 2011-05-08

I am presently reading a very informative recent article by G. Kazakevich (in Ukrainian), entitled "The Celtic component in ethnic processes on the territory of Ukraine in the second half of the first millennium BCE" (The Ethnic History of the peoples of Europe, 28 (2009), pp. 5-14 [this is a journal published by the T. Shevchenko National University in Kyiv]. It has many interesting points to make about the Bastarnae (which I will mention in due course). I just want to point out here that Kazakevich cites from a 1999 article by Maksymov which notes that a "potter's shop" (majsternya in Ukr.) has been discovered on the upper Dnister, and dated "end of the 1rst, beg. of the 2nd c. CE". In it were found fragments of Poeneshti-Lukashovka ceramics. This is approximately 70-90 years later than the latest known Late Poeneshti-Lukashovka items in Bukovyna-Galicia. It indicates either (a) contacts with Peucinians (as mentioned there is no archaeological evidence extant for them but it is reasonable to suppose they were P/L people) or (b) that Late Bastarnians (known in Bukovyna northeast of Moldavia until ca. 20 CE) moved further west in the 1rst c. CE and participated in the formation of the pre-Gothic "Zubrytska" culture (which fused Przeworsk, Zarubinian. and Lypetsk (Dacian) traits) in Galicia and slouthern Volynia, and subsequently became a substrate component of the Chernyakhiv Gothic culture of the 3rd-5th cs.