Hallstatt style/elite culture (jan 1, 800 BC – jan 1, 500 BC)
Description:
Hallstatt style/elite cultures – 800-500 BC- Hallstatt elite culture involved burial of four-wheeled wagons, horse gear, bronze situlae (big vessels for alcoholic drinks like mead) and swords;
- the chieftain’s grave of Oss is an early example of such a grave- here all objects were ritually transformed (bent sword f.i.);
- the richest grave is the grave from Vix (East France); 6th century BC- this is the grave of a female;
- the colony of Massilia was important as it maintained connections with a Hallstatt power centre the Heuneburg (Germany) and Vix, east France;
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Date:
jan 1, 800 BC
jan 1, 500 BC
~ 300 years