Prehistory of France
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Prehistoric France is the period in the human occupation of the geographical area covered by present-day France which extended through prehistory and ended in the Iron Age with the Roman conquest, whe
Venus of Laussel, Gravettian culture, c. 23,000 BC
Chauvet cave painting, Aurignacian culture
Venus of Brassempouy, Gravettian culture
Inscribed bones, Gravettian culture
Urnfield culture
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The Urnfield culture was a late Bronze Age culture of Central Europe, often divided into several local cultures within a broader Urnfield tradition. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dea
Prehistory of France
…c. 2200 – c. 1400 BC), the Middle Bronze Age Tumulus culture (c. 1600-1200 BC), and the Late Bronze Age Atlantic Bronze Age (c. 1300 – c. 700 BC) and Urnfield culture (c. 1300-800 BC). Early Bronze Age sites in Brittany (Armorican Tumulus culture) are believed to have grown out of Beaker roots, with some Wessex culture…
Urnfield culture, bronze situla with bird-headed sun ship motif, Hungary, c. 1000 BC.
Villanovan cinerary urn with sun-bird-ship motifs, Italy, 8th century BC.
Bronze shield from Denmark with sun-bird-ship motifs, Nordic Bronze Age, c. 1100-700 BC.
Urnfield culture sword and helmet, Romania