tumulus culture

The number of settlements increased sharply in comparison with the preceding tumulus culture.

The Urnfield culture grew from the preceding tumulus culture.

It was preceded by the Beaker culture and followed by the Tumulus culture.

The Tumulus culture flourishes.

The leaf-shaped Urnfield sword could be used for slashing, in contrast to the stabbing-swords of the preceding tumulus culture.

As the name implies, the Tumulus culture is distinguished by the practice of burying the dead beneath kurgan burial mounds (tumuli).

A bronze axe from the Tumulus culture (about 1000 BC), however, bears witness to earlier human habitation.

There is some suggestion that the Urnfield culture is associated with a wetter climatic period than the earlier Tumulus cultures.

The origins of the cremation rite are commonly believed to be the Balkans, where it was widespread in the eastern part of the Tumulus culture.

The tumulus culture or " Hügelgräberkultur" was prevalent during the Bronze period B, C1, and C2.

The Piliny culture in northern Hungary and Slovakia grew from the tumulus culture, but used urn burials as well.

About 3,500 years ago the first inhabitants of the area of Eersel were builders of sepulchre hillocks or burial mounds of the Tumulus culture.

These were replaced in their respective territories, for the duration of the subsequent Older Bronze Period by the (pre-Lusatian) Tumulus culture and the Trzciniec culture.

This culture was preeminent in central Europe during the late Bronze Age, from ca. 1200 BC until 700 BC, itself following the Unetice and Tumulus cultures.

The Unetice culture is followed by the middle Bronze Age (1600-1200 BC) Tumulus culture, which is characterised by inhumation burials in tumuli (barrows).

All had links with mainland Europe, namely the Tumulus culture C stage in and the Frøjk-Osterfeld Group of Oscar Montelius' IIIb-c phase.

Some graves contain a combination of tumulus-culture pottery and Urnfield swords (Kressborn, Bodenseekreis) or tumulus culture incised pottery together with early Urnfield types (Mengen).

A likely candidate for the homeland of an Italo-Celtic proto-language or dialect continuum is the Urnfield culture and its predecessor, the Tumulus culture of Central Europe (1600 BC).

These were found among hoards in these areas, along with other bronze items characteristic of this time (c. 1800 BCE onwards), and are attributable to the Tumulus culture that spread across this region.

Tumuli have been used elsewhere in Europe from the Stone age to the Iron Age and the term Tumulus culture specifically refers to South German Tumulus Bronze Age Culture.

Although no burial remains have been found at Whirlow there is a strong possibility that there was a burial mound in the vicinity which indicates the presence of the Tumulus culture of the Middle Bronze Age people.

The Bronze Age in Northern Europe spans the entire 2nd millennium BCE (Unetice culture, Urnfield culture, Tumulus culture, Terramare culture, Lusatian culture) lasting until ca. 600 BCE.