The Hallstatt culture is named for is type site, Hallstatt a lakeside village in the Austrian Salzkammergut southwest of Salzburg, where a large prehistoric cemetery, eventually extending to 1045 burials was discovered by Ramsauer beginning in 1846 and excavated during the second half of the 19th century. The Hallstatt culture, extending about 1200–500 BCE, introduced the Iron Age to Central Europe. In archaeology a type site (also known as a type-site or typesite) is a site that is considered the model of a particular archaeological culture. ... Hallstatt, Upper Austria is a village in the Salzkammergut, a region in Austria. ... Salzkammergut is a resort area east of Salzburg, Austria, spanning the states of Upper Austria, Salzburg, and Styria. ... This page is for the city of Salzburg. ... Prehistory (Greek words προ = before and ιστορία = history) is the period of human history including all previous history before humans which is prior to the advent of writing (which marks the beginning of recorded history). ... Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery or graveyard is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... 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. ...

The community at Hallstatt exploited the salt mines, which had been worked from time to time since the Neolithic, from the 8th to 5th century BC. The style and decoration of the grave goods found in the cemetery is very distinctive, and artifacts made in this style are widespread in Europe. In chemistry, salt is a term used for ionic compounds composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. ... The Neolithic, (Greek neos=new, lithos=stone, or New Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. ... (9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC - other centuries) (800s BC - 790s BC - 780s BC - 770s BC - 760s BC - 750s BC - 740s BC - 730s BC - 720s BC - 710s BC - 700s BC - other decades) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) Events Assyria conquers Damascus and Samaria... (6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) The 5th and 6th centuries BC are a period of philosophical brilliance among advanced civilizations. ... 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. ...

The Hallstatt culture is divided by archaeologists into four phases: Hallstatt A and B correspond to the late Bronze Age, ca. 1200–800 BCE; Hallstatt C refers to the very early Iron age, ca. 800-600 BCE, characterized by the first appearance of iron swords among the bronze ones; and Hallstatt D, where only daggers are found in graves ranges from ca. 600–500 BCE. There are differences in pottery and the brooches as well. 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. ... Aquamarine, platinum, and diamond brooch/pendant worn by Mrs. ...

An eastern Hallstatt cultural zone including Croatia, Slovenia, western Hungary, Austria, Moravia, and Slovakia can be distiguished from a western cultural zone which includes northern Italy, Switzerland, eastern France, southern Germany, and Bohemia. Moravia (Czech: Morava, German: Mähren, Polish: Morawy, Hungarian: Morvaország, Dutch: Moravië) is the eastern part of the Czech Republic. ... Bohemia For the place in the USA, see Bohemia, New York. ...

Exchange systems or folk movements (probably both) spread the Hallstatt cultural complex into the western half of the Iberian peninsula, Great Britain, and Ireland. It is probable that some if not all of this diffusion took place in a Celtic-speaking context. topographic map of the Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. ... Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, both those spoken by the ancient Celts, and those used by their modern descendants, the Gaels, Welsh, Cornish and Bretons. ...

Trade with Greece is attested by finds of attic black-figured pottery in the elite graves of the late Hallstatt period. It was probably imported via Massilia (Marseille). Other imported luxuries include amber, ivory (Gräfenbühl) and probably wine. Recent analyses have shown that the reputed silk in the barrow at Hohmichele was misidentified. Red dye (cochineal) was imported from the south as well (Hochdorf burial). Attica (in Greek: Αττική, Attikí) is a periphery (subdivision) in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. ... City motto: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis. ... This is about the material called amber. ... Ivory is a hard, white, opaque substance that is the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals such as the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, mammoth, etc. ... A glass of red wine Wine display at the Mt Markey Winery This article is about the beverage. ... Silk weaver Silk is a natural protein fiber that can be woven into textiles. ... A dye can generally be described as a coloured substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied. ... Binomial name Dactylopius coccus Costa, 1835 Synonyms Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a scale insect in the suborder Homoptera, native to tropical and subtropical South America and Mexico. ...

In the central Hallstatt regions and towards the end of the period, very rich graves of high-status individuals under large tumuli are found in association with fortified hilltop settlements. They often contain chariots and horse bits or yokes. Well known chariot burials include Býčí Skála, Vix and Hochdorf. A model of a chariot made from lead has been found in Frögg, Carinthia. Burial of Oleg of Novgorod in a tumulus in 912. ... Carinthia (German Kärnten, Slovenian KoroÅ¡ka) is a federal state or Bundesland, located in the south of Austria. ...

The defended sites frequently include the workshops of bronze, silver, and gold smiths. Typical sites are the Heuneburg on the upper Danube surrounded by nine very large grave tumuli, Mont Lassois in eastern France near Chatillon-sur-Seine with, at its foot, the very rich grave at Vix, and the hill fort at Molpir in the Czech Republic. The Heuneburg is the site of a large early Iron Age (Hallstatt culture) hill fort near Riedlingen, Württemberg, in Germany. ... Length 2,888 km Elevation of the source 1,078  m Average discharge 30 km before Passau: 580 m³/s Vienna: 1,900 m³/s Budapest: 2,350 m³/s Belgrade: 4,000 m³/s just before Delta: 6,500  m³/s Area watershed 817,000  km² Origin  Black Forest... Another French commune is Ch tillon_sur_Marne. ...

Artwork includes elaborate jewellery made of bronze and gold, and stone-stelae, like the famous warrior of Hirschlanden. The Warrior of Hirschlanden is a statue of a nude ithyphallic warrior made of sandstone, the first known iron age life-size anthropomorphic statue north of the alps. ...

Sources

• Vierrädrige Wagen der Hallstattzeit ("The Hallstatt four-wheeled wagon" at Mainz). RGZM Mainz, 1987.