Hallstatt culture
The Hallstatt culture is named after Hallstatt, a city in Austria in which the first artifacts were found. It lasted from about 1200 BC to about 275 BC.
There were different periods that are now told apart mainly by the kinds of brooches used. The brooches changed rather rapidly and permit a good estimate. Hallstatt culture sites have been found in the east of France, in Switzerland, in the south of Germany, in Austria, in Slovenia and Croatia, northwestern Hungary, southwestern Slovakia and southern Moravia.
In this time, the social structure developed into a hierarchy. That can be documented by various things that were added to graves, such as at Magdalenenberg. In the Bronze Age, people lived in big settlements. As iron became available, trade routes changed. A new upper class could establish itself. Unlike before, the upper class liked to live in big houses in the countryside to show their power.
Funerary cults also changed, from cremation burials, to burials with sarcophagi. The new upper class used its wealth for import goods, mostly from the Mediterranean. People started settling there around the 2nd millennium BC.
Hallstatt Culture Media
- Heuneburg (Diorama - Ausschnitt im Heuneburg-Museum, Hundersingen).JPG
Model of the Heuneburg, Germany
- Palais Lassois07.jpg
Vix palace, Mont Lassois, France
- Konigsbrunn 1.jpg
Model of a Hallstatt culture settlement at Konigsbrunn, Germany
- Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave reconstruction.jpg
The Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave, Germany
- Hallstatt main central places map.jpg
Distribution of main central places north of the Alps, 6th–5th centuries BC
- Aufbau der keltischen Gesellschaft.jpg
Illustration of the social classes of Early Celtic society, including the "princely" class not yet evidenced at Hallstatt
- Kultwagen Strettweg.jpg
The Strettweg Cult Wagon, Austria, c. 600 BC
- Guertelblech Moersingen.jpg
Typical decoration on a belt-plate
- Hallstatt grab 23.jpg
Hallstatt grab 23
- 2020-04-10-Glauberg-Keltenwelt-DJI 0256.jpg
Glauberg burial mound, earthworks and 'processional road' (right)
Other websites
Hallstatt culture: the real thing. [1]
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