Tumulus culture

For other uses, see Tumulus (disambiguation).

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The Tumulus culture dominated Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 1600 BC to 1200 BC).

It was the descendant of the Unetice culture. Its heartland the area previously occupied by the Unetice culture besides Bavaria and Württemberg. It was succeeded by the Late Bronze Age Urnfield culture.

As the name implies, the Tumulus culture is distinguished by the practice of burying the dead beneath kurgan burial mounds (tumuli).

See also

• Beaker culture
• Urnfield culture

References

• Nora Kershaw Chadwick, J. X. W. P. Corcoran, The Celts (1970), p. 27.[1]
• Barbara Ann Kipfer, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology (2000)