Iron Age material culture centred on the Elbe-Weser region of northern Germany, extending north into Jutland and east into western Poland; forms the southern part of the "Pre-Roman Iron Age" and is widely identified with the emergence of early Germanic-speaking peoples.
Diversified into successor regional groups (e.g. the peoples later recorded by Tacitus) as Rome pushed to the Rhine/Elbe frontier around the turn of the era.
Archaeology-led account of Iron Age Germanic/temperate-European societies including the Jastorf zone, using material culture rather than Roman-authored stereotypes.