European_archaeology European_archaeology The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture during the local Bronze Age, and introduced the Iron Age. It is named for its type site Hallstatt, a lakeside village in the Austrian Salzkammergut southeast of Salzburg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hallstatt culture"
(Starčevo-Körös) The Starčevo-Körös culture is the name given by archaeologists to a widespread early Neolithic archaeological culture from Eastern Europe and the Balkans. It dates to the between the seventh and fifth millennia BC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Starčevo-Körös"
The Urnfield culture (c. 1300 BC - 750 BC) is a pre-Celtic culture of central Europe, considered by some scholars to mark the origin of the Celts as a distinct cultural group. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns which were then buried in fields. The Urnfield culture followed the Tumulus culture and was succeeded by the Hallstatt culture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Urnfield"
The Villanovan culture was the earliest Iron Age culture of central and northern Italy, abruptly following the Bronze Age Terramare culture and giving way in the 7th century to an increasingly Orientalizing culture influenced by Greek traders, which was followed without a severe break by the Etruscan civilization. Villanovan cultural origins, but perhaps not all its peoples, lay in the Eastern Alps, with connections to the Halstatt culture. The Villanovans introduced iron-working to the Italian peninsula; they practiced cremation and buried the ashes of their dead in pottery urns of distinctive double-cone shape. ...more on Wikipedia about "Villanovan culture"
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