Unstrut group
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The Unstrut group (also Waltersleben group after the burial ground of Erfurt-Waltersleben in Thuringia ) is from about 1300 BC. BC ( Bronze Age ) to around 750 BC Dated BC ( Iron Age ). Previous culture was the barrows Culture (1550 to 1300/1250 v. Chr.) Main subsequent culture is Thüringische culture (750 to. 300 BC.).
distribution
The Unstrut group was widespread from the Thuringian Basin to the central Saale region. The Saale estuary group was adjacent to the north . Around 1000 BC BC the distribution area of the Unstrut group decreased when the Saale estuary group expanded its area.
funeral
In the beginning, body burial in tree coffins and wooden boxes dominated. However, it was never completely abandoned in relation to cremation, which was used from the 1st millennium BC. Began increasingly.
Remarks
- ↑ a b See Harald Meller (Ed.): Glutgeboren. Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (= booklets accompanying the permanent exhibition in the Landesmuseum Halle . Volume 5). Halle an der Saale 2015, ISBN 978-3-944507-14-9 .
literature
- Gerhard Cheap : Young Bronze Age stone packing graves from Rumpin, Saalkreis . In: Annual Journal for Central German Prehistory 52. 1968, pp. 81–130.
- Helmut Jäger , Gerhard Mildenberger , Wolfgang P. Schmid , Dieter Timpe : Elbe. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 7, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011445-3 , pp. 94-107. ( Article accessed via GAO at De Gruyter Online)
- Rosemarie Müller: Pre-Roman Iron Age. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 32, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018387-0 , pp. 623-638. ( Article accessed via GAO at De Gruyter Online)
- Karl Peschel : The structure of the younger bronze age in Thuringia . In: Werner Coblenz , Fritz Horst (Hrsg.): Central European Bronze Age. Contributions to archeology and history. 8th conference of the Prehistory and Protohistory Section from April 24th to 26th, 1975 in Dresden . Berlin 1978, pp. 87-120.
- Berthold Schmidt , Waldemar Nitzschke: Burial customs of the late Bronze Age Helmsdorfer and Saale estuary group . In: Ausgrabungen und Funde 19. Issue 1, 1974, pp. 6-17.
- Berthold Schmidt: The Young Bronze Age tribes in the Elbe-Saale area. In: Werner Coblenz, Fritz Horst (Hrsg.): Central European Bronze Age. Contributions to archeology and history. 8th conference of the Prehistory and Protohistory Section from April 24th to 26th, 1975 in Dresden . Berlin 1978, pp. 121-136.
- Berthold Schmidt: Young Bronze Age castles and hilltop settlements in the north-eastern and eastern Harz foreland . In: Bohuslav Chropovsky, Joachim Hermann (Hrsg.): Contributions to Bronze Age castle building in Central Europe . Berlin 1982, pp. 354-345.
- Heinrich Tiefenbach , Wolfgang Timpel: Erfurt. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 7, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 3-11-011445-3 , pp. 488-497. ( Article accessed via GAO at De Gruyter Online)
