Baltic culture in Pomerania

The term Pomerania Balts, or rather Western Balts, refers to Baltic people, who as early as the bronze age inhabited parts of the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, an area now known as Pomerania.^[1]. 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.^[2]

Hermann Schall proposed a Baltic origin of several toponymes in this area.

See also

• Early history of Pomerania
• Dniepr Balts

References

• Schall, Hermann (1962). Baltische Sprachreste zwischen Elbe und Weichsel. - Forschungen und Fortschritte, 1962, Bd. 36, Nr 2, S. 56 - 60. (German)
• Schall, Hermann (1963). Die baltisch - slawische Sprachgemeinschaft zwischen Elbe und Weichsel. W: VII International Kongress fur Namenforschung. Akten und Memoiren, 2, Florenz 1963, S. 385 - 404. (German)
• Schall, Hermann (1966). Baltische Gewassernamen im Flussystem 'Obere Havel' (Sudost Mecklenburg). Baltistica, 2/1, 1966, S. 7 - 42. (German)
• Schall, Hermann (1970). Preussische Namen langs der Weichsel (Nach Lucas David, ca. 1580) in Velta Ruke-Dravina, ed., Donum Balticum to Prof. Chr. S. Stang, Stockholm, 1970, S. 448 - 464. (German)