# Jastorf Culture (-600)

URL: https://germany-history.com/timeline/-600-jastorf-culture
Location: Northern Germany
Categories: main-event

The Iron Age Jastorf culture developed in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia from around 600 BCE. Many historians and archaeologists associate it with the formation of the Proto-Germanic peoples and language. Over the following centuries its descendants expanded south and east.

## Why it matters
It is the archaeological starting point of the Germanic world.

## Sources
- [Wikipedia – Jastorf culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jastorf_culture)
- [Wikipedia – Germanic peoples](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica – Germanic peoples](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Germanic-peoples)