Únětice culture
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The Únětice culture, Aunjetitz culture or Unetician culture is an archaeological culture at the start of the Central European Bronze Age, dated roughly to about 2300–1600 BC. The eponymous site for this culture, the village of Únětice, is located in the central Czech Republic, northwest of Prague. There are about 1,400 documented Únětice culture sites in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, 550 sites in Poland, and, in Germany, about 500 sites and loose finds locations. The Únětice culture is also known from north-eastern Austria, and from western Ukraine.
Nebra Sky Disk discovered in Saxony Anhalt, Germany, Early Bronze Age, 1800-1600 BC
Bronze swords buried with the Nebra Sky Disk, c.1600 BC.
Reconstruction of the Leubingen burial chamber
Diagram of the Helmsdorf barrow
Leubingen tumulus
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The Leubingen tumulus is an Early Bronze Age "princely" grave of the Leubingen culture,, dating to about 1940 BC. It is located near the hills of Kyffhäuser in Leubingen, an Ortsteil of Sömmerda in the eastern German state of Thuringia.
The Leubingen tumulus
Gold artefacts from the Leubingen burial
Illustration 1 from Klopfleisch's hand-drawn/-written report