- Source: Wietenberg culture
The Wietenberg culture was a Middle Bronze Age archeological culture in central Romania (Transylvania) that roughly dates to 2200–1600/1500 BCE. Representing a local variant of Usatove culture, it was contemporary with the Ottomány culture and Unetice culture and was replaced by the Noua culture. Its name was coined after the eponymic Wietenberg Hill near Sighișoara.
People of this culture traded with the Mycenaeans. Burial sites contain bronze battle axes and maces with stone heads. Pottery consists of amphorae with spiral and meandric ornament.
By 1964, about 200 settlements of this culture were discovered.
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See also
Bronze Age in Romania
Ottomány culture
Monteoru culture
Tei culture
Vatya culture
Basarabi culture
Coțofeni culture
Pecica culture
Prehistory of Transylvania
Prehistoric Romania
Prehistoric Europe
Bronze Age Europe
Rotbav Archaeological Site
Notes
References
Wietenberg ohne Mykene. Gedanken zu Herkunft und Bedeutung der Keramikverzierung der Wietenberg-Kultur von Laura Dietrich und Oliver Dietrich, Berlin (2011)
External links
Golden axe of Tufalau
Культура витенберг Archived 2011-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
Бронзовый век Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
Wietenberg pottery
Wietenberg hearth plate from Sighisoara-Wietenberg
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Wietenberg culture
- Prehistory of Transylvania
- Tumulus culture
- Únětice culture
- Wessex culture
- Bell Beaker culture
- Urnfield culture
- Ottomány culture
- Cernavodă culture
- Terramare culture
