The only dramatic thing that I'm aware of concerning the Germani of the Poznan' area (the province of Wielkopolska) is the recently renewed interest in the Przeworsk and Wielbark cultures, stimulated by the discovery of numerous new sites (graves and cemetries, sanctuaries, settlements, and even a salt-extraction plant) found in the course of "rescue excavations" along a proposed gas pipeline since the mid 1990s. Further discoveries can be expected if the archaeologists don't run out of funding. It seems the most important event in the political life of the region about the beginning of the common era was the expansion of the Wielbark culture from Pomerania into northern Wielkopolska at the expense of the local Przeworsk culture in the first decades AD. The boundary between the two cultures was very sharply defined. The Wielbark "Goths" withdrew from the area about the beginning of the third century.
Piotr
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> According to Peschel, the sudden and dramatic reorganisation and militarisation emanating all over the later Germania in the latter half of the first century BCE from the core area of the Elbgermanen (ie. Thuringia and environs) seems to come somehow from the Oder-Vistula Germani, especially from the area around Poznan'. I was wondering if there was anyone in cybalist who knew about the archaeology of that area who could tell whether there had been any interesting changes in that period wrt the finds?