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Unterwölbling Culture
The Unterwölbling culture is an Early Bronze Age culture that thrived between 2300 and 1800 BCE in the region roughly bounded by the Danube, the Lower Austrian Alpine foothills, the Enns River, and the Vienna Woods. The main localities are in the lower parts of Danube tributaries, including the Enns, Ybbs, Melk, Fladnitz, Traisen, and Great Tulln. This culture probably originates from the Late Neolithic Bell Beaker culture and was subsequently replaced by the Böheimkirchen (Věteřov) culture. The name was coined in 1937 by Richard Pittioni after the site of Unterwölbling, a small town in present-day municipality of Wölbling in Lower Austria, about 1.5 km northwest of Oberwölbling. The Unterwölbling culture made their metal products primarily from forged sheet metal and decorated them with dots. Remains of leather caps held/decorated by strips of bronze sheet metal have been found as grave goods in women's graves. The jewelry attributed to this culture also included ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of the three-age system, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age. Conceived as a global era, the Bronze Age follows the Neolithic, with a transition period between the two known as the Chalcolithic. The final decades of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean basin are often characterised as a period of widespread societal collapse known as the Late Bronze Age collapse (), although its severity and scope are debated among scholars. An ancient civilisation is deemed to be part of the Bronze Age if it either produced bronze by smelting its own copper and alloying it with tin, arsenic, or other metals, or traded other items for bronze from producing areas elsewhere. Bronze Age cultures were the first to History of writing, develop writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
