- Tumulus culture
The Tumulus culture dominated
Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age (ca.1600 BC to1200 BC ).It was the descendant of the
Unetice culture . Its heartland the area previously occupied by the Unetice culture besidesBavaria andWürttemberg . It was succeeded by the Late Bronze AgeUrnfield culture .As the name implies, the Tumulus culture is distinguished by the practice of burying the dead beneath
burial mound s (tumuli ).ee also
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Beaker culture
*Urnfield culture References
*Nora Kershaw Chadwick, J. X. W. P. Corcoran, "The Celts" (1970), p. 27. [http://books.google.com/books?q=%22followed+the+Unetice%22&btnG=Search+Books]
*Barbara Ann Kipfer, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology (2000)
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