Zur eisernen Fibel vom Spätlatèneschema aus der Siedlung von Kruhlyk (obl. Tscherniwzi, UA): Klassifikation und Querverbindungen in Europa / On the iron brooch of the Late La Tène pattern from the settlement of Kruhlyk (obl. Chernivtsi, UA): Classification and cross-connections in Europe

Building on the older discovery of a brooch from the Late Ice Age settlement of Kruhlyk and a more recent interpretation of the same, this article focuses on the distribution of brooches from the Kostrzewski K var. It has been demonstrated that this brooch holds significant potential for the interpretation of the Poienești-Lucașeuca culture. It connects the region of the Poienești-Lucașeuca culture with Central Europe and thus joins a whole series of metal and ceramic finds systematically collected by Mircea Babeș and later supplemented by a series of works specifically dedicated to certain categories of artifacts (clay spoons, firedogs, brooches, coins, etc.). There are good reasons why these finds have been used as evidence of migration from Central Europe to the forest-steppe east of the Carpathians. This short essay is part of a large-scale classification project that enables the Kruhlyk fibulae to be assigned to a specific variant, thus allowing for more precise interpretations. The focus of this project is on the Late La Tène fibulae, which Jósef Kostzrewski designated as Var. K in his important work in 1919. The starting point of the authors’ project is that Var. K fibulae occur in all cultures and, as such, have the potential to synchronise the chronological systems of these archaeological cultures. An essential goal of the project is to separate similar from dissimilar pieces through detailed classification and subsequently to verify their respective chronological anchoring. These results are to be published in the Prehistoric Journal and in the Berlin monograph series ‘Chronoi. Time, Time Awareness, Time Management.