Unetice culture
Culture | Defunct
2300 BCE to 1650 BCE
Unetice – or more properly Únětice culture – is the name given to an early Bronze Age culture, preceded by the Beaker culture and followed by the Tumulus culture.
It was named after finds at site in Únětice, northwest of Prague.
It is focused around the Czech Republic, southern and central Germany, and western Poland.
It grew out of beaker roots.
It is dated from 2300-1600 BCE (Bronze A1 and A2 in the chronological schema of Paul Reinecke).A1: 2300-1950 BCE: triangular daggers, flat axes, stone wrist-guards, flint arrowheadsA2: 1950-1700 BCE: daggers with metal hilt, flanged axes, halberds, pins with perforated spherical heads, solid braceletsThese dates are mainly derived from the Singen-cemetery (radiocarbon dates) and the Leubingen and Helmsdorf burials (dendro-dates).According to Marija Gimbutas a high percent of the gravesites contained a from the Baltic Sea.
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