The Bronze Age had begun to spread…

The Bronze Age had begun to spread throughout Europe from about 1800, partly through the influence of the Unetice culture, the name given to an early Bronze Age culture, preceded by the Beaker culture and followed by the Tumulus culture.

The eponymous site is located at Únetice, northwest of Prague, and is focused around the Czech Republic, southern and central Germany, and western Poland.

The Unetice culture represents a farming and metalworking people living close to the ore sources; their culture had in about 2300 BCE supplanted the earlier European copper workers associated with the Beaker culture.

From 1950 BCE, the culture has produced daggers with metal hilts, flanged axes, halberds, pins with perforated spherical heads, and solid bracelets.

The Unetice culture is succeeded in around 1650 BCE by the Tumulus culture, distinguished by the practice of burying the dead beneath burial mounds (tumuli).