The Unterwölbling culture is an Early

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culture that thrived between 2300 and 1800 BCE in the region roughly bounded by the

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, the Lower

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foothills, the

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, and the

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. The main localities are in the lower parts of Danube tributaries, including the Enns,

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, Fladnitz, Traisen, and Great Tulln. This culture probably originates from the Late

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and was subsequently replaced by the

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(

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) 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 chains with links made of a variety of materials (shells, amber, bronze, bronze sheet rolls, bone, etc.), with trapezoidal pendants made of bone.

References

Municipality of Nussdorf o. d. Traisen; Prehistoric Museum. Bronze Age cultures of Europe {{Austria-hist-stub

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