Hallstatt culture
Early Iron Age
Hallstatt culture is an early Iron Age civilization that flourished in central Europe from roughly 800 to 450 BCE, named for a village in Austria where extensive archaeological finds were discovered.
The culture is characterized by distinctive burial practices, ironworking, and salt mining.
It preceded and influenced the later Celtic La Tène culture.
- chiefdomsTerritories governed by chiefs
- salt tradeCommerce in crystalline preservative
- geometric patternsArrangements of regular shapes
- burial moundsEarthen heaps over graves
- ironworkingShaping heated ferrous metal
gold ornaments · social stratification · helmets · Moravia · pottery · amber beads · Danube River · Bohemia · warriors · swords · amber · prehistoric · grave goods · Danube · Celtic · cremation · metalwork · Bavaria
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- ancient sitesPompeii, Stonehenge, pyramids, Colosseum, Giza
- Celtic heritageCelts, Celtic languages, Celtic mythology, Celtic art, druids
- CeltsCelts, Gauls, Britons, Galatians, Celtiberians
- Iron AgeCelts, Gauls, hill forts, iron smelting, Celtic art
- Iron Age EuropeIron Age, Celts, Gauls, druids, iron tools
Hallstatt cultureLa Tène culture
Late Iron Age Celtic civilization
Bronze Age · Neolithic · Roman period · Villanovan culture · Copper Age
Hallstatt cultureGreek civilization
Ancient Mediterranean society
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