Early Gothic-associated archaeological culture complex tracing the Goths' traditional migration from the lower Vistula (Wielbark culture, from c. 1st century CE) southeast to the Black Sea steppe (Chernyakhov culture, 2nd-4th centuries CE), predating the historically-attested Visigothic and Ostrogothic kingdoms.
The Chernyakhov culture and its Gothic populations were shattered by the arrival of the Huns from 375 CE onward, triggering the Gothic migrations into the Roman Empire that produced the distinct, later Visigothic and Ostrogothic kingdoms already tracked in the dataset.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Goths (Wielbark/Chernyakhov, Vistula-Pontic steppe) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1 · 231.
Standard modern history tracing the Goths from their earlier Baltic/Pontic archaeological horizons through to the historically-attested kingdoms.