Olga A. Khomyakova

Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia

E-mail: olga.homiakova@gmail.com

Keywords: the Baltic lands, the period of Roman inf luence, barbarian female dress, pattern of clothing, chronology, brooches.

The article presents a possible reconstruction of the formation of a regional model of the female dress in the South-East Baltic in the first centuries AD. The study is based on a review of the Sambian-Natangian complexes of the 1st–2nd centuries with barbarian elements, the leading place among which belongs to brooches of group V after O. Almgren. Most of the materials presented in the article are published for the first time. The traditions of making northern European “barbarian” brooches influenced the emergence in the Baltic cultures of their own brooch set, jewelry style and the attire in general. The model of the female dress that emerged in the middle 2nd century on the Kaliningrad Peninsula – a contact zone with East German cultures – is a marker of the processes associated with the development of social structures among the population of the Sambian-Natangian culture.

DOI: 10.31857/S086956870009510-2