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Musée d'archéologie nationale (France) Мишель КазанскийАнна Мастыкова Патрик Перен Национальный центр научных исследований Франции (CNRS)Институт археологии РАН Музей национальной археологии (Франция) VISIGOTHS IN NORTHERN GAUL ACCORDING TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS:A STATE OF RESEARCH Abstract. The study of burials of the early Merovingian era in such sites as Arcy-Sainte-Restitue, Chassemy, Breny, Saint-Martin-de-Fontenay, and Vicq shows that the new groups who settled in northern Gaul in the fifth and early sixth centuries can be identified primarily by female costume elements of heterogeneous origin. Despite their small numbers, these people certainly played an important military and social role, as evidenced by the burial of the nobility. A community inventory uncovered Alemanni, Thuringian, Lombard, Ostrogoth, Danube-German, Anglo-Saxon and Visigoth elements. Their appearance at the same time as the creation of the Merovingian kingdom is not surprising. Indeed, this fact has been well established in archaeological studies of other "barbarian" areas, in particular Burgundy, Ostrogothic Italy, and Kievan Rus". In these regions nascent royal (princely) power relied on foreign military groups with no connection to the local population in order to ensure loyalty to the ruler. This article focuses on a case study of the Spanish Visigoths who settled in northern Gaul.Keywords: burials, Visigoths, Merovingian kingdom, northern Gaul. Michel Kazanski, Anna Mastykova et Patrick Périn. Les Wisigoths… 46avant tout par les éléments du costume féminin, se sont installés en Gaule du Nord. Bien que peu nombreux, ils ont sans aucun doute joué un rôle, militaire et social, comme en témoignent les tombes de « chefs ». Le mobilier de ces communautés comporte des éléments alamaniques, thuringiens, lombards, ostrogothiques, germaniques danubiens, anglo-saxons et wisigothiques. Leur apparition, au moment même de la naissance du royaume mérovingien, n"a rien d"étonnant. En effet, il s"agit d"un phénomène archéologiquement bien connu dans d"autres royaumes « barbares », comme en Burgondie, en Italie ostrogothique et jusqu"à la Russie de Kiev, où le pouvoir royal naissant s"appuie en partie sur les groupes militaires d"origine étrangère n"ayant pas de liens avec la population locale, assurant ainsi leur fidélité au roi. Nous avons choisi d"aborder ici la question des populations venues d"Espagne wisigothique qui se sont implantées en Gaule du Nord.Depuis les années 1990, l"attribution des éléments germaniques orientaux, découverts en Gaule du Nord, est vivement discutée. Si les chercheurs français ont avancé leurs origines clairement danubiennes, 2 les archéologues allemands, sauf quelques uns, 3 y ont vu avant tout la preuve de la présence wisigothique. 4 La chronologie de ces objets est également controversée: selon V. Bierbrauer et ses élèves, le matériel en question est essentiellement datable après 480, c'est-à-dire après l"installation massive des Wisigoths en Espagne, 5 tandis qu"en France, on attribue une partie de ces d...

the article publishes new materials from a ruined catacomb burial near Kislovodsk. the Konkhutorsk 2 cemetery was discovered by robbers; investigations by the iaras expedition took place in 2007-8. catacomb 2 yielded interesting materials permitting the dating of the burial to the second half of the seventh century c.e. the dating is based on analysis of the bead assemblage, the gold earrings with pyramid-shaped pendant, and the pottery fragments. the bead assemblage with cross-shaped jet separators, flattened amber beads, and poorly faceted carnelian beads can serve as a chronological indicator for catacomb burials in the Kislovodsk basin.

The authors address the ratio of archaeological cultures and ethnic groups of the Roman time in the Aestii settlement zone in the South-Eastern Baltic, with the help of archeological sources and written accounts. Comparison of archaeological data with written accounts does not allow us to come to an unambiguous conclusion that, at some period, the Aestii left the territory of East Prussia and their territory was occupied by other peoples, for example Germanic ones. The ethnonym of Aestii is applicable primarily to the bearers of the Sambian-Natangian culture, but it can also cover other cultural groups of the coastal population, primarily in the zone of the Wielbark culture. The Sambian-Natangian culture, as well as the Wielbark culture, are heterogeneous in origin. In both cases there is a Germanic cultural component, but it is not the only one. In the Sambian-Natangian culture of the Roman period, the German influence is expressed in the funerary rite and in material culture, while its appearance is associated not only with the Wielbark influence, but also with the Scandinavian impulses. To what extent the rather homogeneous cultural appearance of the bearers of the Sambian-Natangian culture reflects their ‘ethnic’ unity is a question beyond the competence of archeology alone.