I’m currently doing some writing on a character who lived in Romania (in the Carpathian Mountains, respectively) from about 850 BCE to about 800 BCE. From what little I have been able to research on my own, I believe that this would be categorized as the “Urnfield Culture” period, and reading about that has been helpful because this character was heavily involved in the ritual sacrifice aspect of the culture, though even then its difficult to find work that really digs into the details of what that all entailed.

I basically want to know as much as humanly possible about this region, its people, customs, religion,military and day to day life during this time, but every time I search for something I can only ever find writings, at the earliest, from well into the CEs. I know its a difficult period to pin down specifics about, seeing as how they didn’t leave any written records that we know of (or at least, that I know of that we know of), but any help that can be given or any sources I might be able to refer to would be greatly appreciated.

The character is from an existing work, but a few writers/artists along with myself are planning on expanding his narrative and looking into his canonical origin. Here’s what we DO know about him from the preexisting canon:

1. His name is Anglo-Saxon in origin, but there’s practically nothing that exists on Proto-Indo-European languages, so figuring out how someone born in the southeastern-ish mountains would have a name originating from a language of the north at the time he was born is a real puzzle.
2. His bringing up was largely based in Druidic teaching/training, as well as Sun worshipping, but every source we can find on ancient Druids don’t date back that far, and we’re wondering if perhaps it was, for that particular region at least, rooted in the Sun cult religion of the time and then evolved into Druidism as it was later on?
3. He was likely a slave for a fair portion of his life.
4. Whether or not he would’ve had a family is uncertain, but something we’re willing to possibly explore if we knew more about the dynamics of that part of society.
5. He lived well into his 40s, which at the time was of course considered quite old.

Those are the essential bits we’re using to form this narrative, and thus the bits we need the most info on, but as I said earlier, literally ANYTHING on that 50 year period and/or anything preceding it that may have effected the conditions around that period would be massively appreciated.

Thank you! Please let me know if I can help clear anything up. :)