The Unstrut culture was part of the
Bronze Age Urnfield culture, a homogeneous society noted for their biconical funerary urns used in storing the ashes of the deceased.
The Unstrut (''stone packing graves'') group settled in
Germany,
particularly in the central region where the Saale mouth (stone cists) group also lived.
These two groups, along with the Helmsdorf or Elb-Havel group formed on the western edge of the
Lausitz culture
The Lusatian culture existed in the later Bronze Age and early Iron Age (1700 BC – 500 BC) in most of what is now Poland and parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, eastern Germany and western Ukraine. It covers the Periods Montelius III (early ...
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References
Urnfield culture
Archaeological cultures of Central Europe
Bronze Age cultures of Europe
Archaeological cultures in Germany
History of Thuringia
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