Four tall conical golden hats dating to between 1400 BC and 800 BC, have been found in Central Europe: one find in 1835 near Schifferstadt near Speyer dated to 1400-1300, one fragmentary find in 1844 near Avanton near Poitiers, one at Ezelsdorf near Nurnberg in 1953, dated to 1000-900, and one find of unknown origin, probably from Switzerland or Swabia, bought in 1996 by the National Museum of Berlin, dated to 1000-800. The tallest of these is the Ezelsdorf one, measuring 90 cm. (Redirected from 1400 BC) Centuries: 16th century BC - 15th century BC - 14th century BC Decades: 1450s BC 1440s BC 1430s BC 1420s BC 1410s BC - 1400s BC - 1390s BC 1380s BC 1370s BC 1360s BC 1350s BC Events and Trends Palace of Minos destroyed by fire (1400 BC) Several board... Centuries: 10th century BC - 9th century BC - 8th century BC Decades: 850s BC 840s BC 830s BC 820s BC 810s BC - 800s BC - 790s BC 780s BC 770s BC 760s BC 750s BC Events and Trends 804 BC - Hadad-nirari IV of Assyria conquers Damascus. ... Historical lands and provinces in Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. ... 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate) with approx. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Location within France Poitiers (population 85,000) is a small city located in west central France. ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Swabia (German: Schwaben) is both a historic and linguistic region in Germany. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ...

The hats are associated with the pre-Proto-Celtic Bronze Age Urnfield culture. Their close similarities in symbolism and techniques of facture are testimony to a coherent Bronze Age culture over a wide-ranging territory in eastern France and western and southwestern Germany. A comparable golden pectoral was found at Mold, Flintshire, in northern Wales. Proto-Celtic, also called Common Celtic, is the putative ancestor of all the known Celtic languages. ... The Bronze Age is a period in a civilizations development when the most advanced metalworking has developed the techniques of smelting copper from natural outcroppings and alloys it to cast bronze. ... The Urnfield culture of central European culture is dated roughly between 1300 BC and 750 BC. The name describes the custom of cremating the dead and placing them in cemeteries. ... Mold (Yr Wyddgrug in Welsh) is the county town of Flintshire in Wales and lies on the River Alyn. ...

The gold hats were first brought together for comparison and set in the broader context of the culture of Bronze Age Europe in a 1999 exhibition in Bonn, Gods and heroes of the Bronze Age: Europe in the time of Odysseus (link below). Bonn is a city in Germany (Population (2004 est): 313,605 ; the 19th largest city in Germany), in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine. ...

See also

• pointy hat
• horned helmet
• Nebra skydisk
• Trundholm Solar Chariot
• Tumulus culture
• Urnfield culture

The Jewish poet Süßkind von Trimberg wearing a Judenhut (Codex Manesse, 14th century) Pointy hats were a distinctive feature of a wide range of people during history, in particular suggesting an ancient Indo-European tradition, but they were also traditionally worn by women of Lapland, the Mikmaw people... European Iron Age helmets with horns are known from a few depictions, and even fewer actual finds. ... The Nebra skydisk before restoration Diagram of the disk in its current condition (a star and a part of the full moon was restored). ... The Sun Chariot pulled by a horse is believed to be a sculpture illustrating an important part of Nordic Bronze Age mythology. ... The Tumulus culture which followed the Únêtice, and from which they descended, dominated central Europe during much of the second part of the second millenium B.C.E.. As the name implies, the Tumulus culture is distinguished by the practice of burying the dead beneath burial mounds. ... The Urnfield culture of central European culture is dated roughly between 1300 BC and 750 BC. The name describes the custom of cremating the dead and placing them in cemeteries. ...

External links

• Mathias Schultz, "Der Kult der Sternenmagier"
• Götter und Helden in der Bronzezeit: Europa im Zeitalter des Odysseus, exhibition, Bonn. 1999. Catalogue introduction, wall panel information: [1] (.doc format)

This European history-related article is a stub. You can help by expanding it. World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... HIStory: Past, Present and Future Book I was a double CD released by pop singer Michael Jackson. ...