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
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
Celts
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The Celts or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. Major Celtic groups included
Urnfield culture
…of the Urnfield materials with the Proto-Celtic language group in central Europe, and it has been argued that it was the ancestral culture of the Celts. The Urnfield layers of the Hallstatt culture, "Ha A" and "Ha B", are succeeded by the Iron Age "Hallstatt period" proper: "Ha C" and "Ha D" (8th-6th…
The Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman statue at the Capitoline Museums of Rome, Italy.
La Tène–style ceremonial Agris Helmet, 350 BC, Angoulême city Museum in France.
Reconstruction of the Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave, Stuttgart, Germany, c. 530 BC.
Reconstruction of a late La Tène period settlement in Altburg near Bundenbach, Germany (first century BC)