Steve Woodson wrote:
> It has been suggested that the 'face urns' were Illyrian (or Bastarnae,
> or both) when they were living north of the Carpathians, east of the Oder.
> Their migrations can then be followed by the spreading south of the urns.
The Face Urns in northern Poland appeared much later (550-200 BC). Also, the face
urns in Etruscan culture (c. 800-500 BC) could not precede the Urnfield culture,
that started about 1200 BC. I would rather say that the Face Urns were a local
continuation of Urnfield (Illyrian?) culture (although I' m not sure about their
relations with Etruscans). As for the Bastarnae, I thought they were a German
tribe that moved from Nothern Germany toward the southeastern Europe (in about
400 BC) and settled in the Dniester valley. They probably had many contacts with
Urnfield people (as well as with Scythians), but does anybody know whether any
archeological findings are associated with their presence?
Michal