[[File:ArcheologicalCulturesOfCentralEuropeAtEarlyPreRomanIronAge.png_thumb_200px_Early Iron Age:<br>dark green: Nordic Bronze Age<br>dark red: Jastorf culture<br>yellow: Harpstedt-Nienburg group<br>orange: Celtic groups<br>olive: Pomeranian culture<br>green: House urns culture<br>reddish: East Baltic culture<br>lilac: West Baltic cairns culture<br>turquoise; Milogrady culture<br>black: estonic group]][[File:Archeological cultures in Northern and Central Europe at the late pre-Roman Iron Age.png_right_200px_thumb_Late Pre-Roman Iron Age:<br>dark green: Nordic group<br>dark red: late phase Jastorf culture<br>buff: Harpstedt-Nienburg group<br>green: House Urns culture<br>dark brown: Oksywie culture<br>red: Gubin group of Jastorf<br>olive: Przeworsk culture<br>lilac: West-Baltic cairns culture<br>reddish: East-Baltic culture<br>turquoise: Zarubintsy culture<br>orange: Celtic]]The Jastorf culture was an Iron Age material culture in what is now north Germany, spanning the 6th to 1st centuries BC, forming the southern part of the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
L'archeologia offre prove della cristallizzazione di un gruppo in termini di materiali usati, in cui l'impoverita età del bronzo continuava ad esercitare un'influenza culturale, e la cultura di Hallstatt era solo strumentale, con grandi migrazioni.