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Hallstatt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hallstatt , village, Upper Austria prov., W central...Austria, in the Salzkammergut , on the Lake of Hallstatt. A tourist center, it is one of the oldest settlements in Austria. The term Hallstatt now refers to late Bronze and early Iron...
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Celts
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Age in central Europe; the cemetery of Hallstatt in Austria represented the earlier phase...continuity of burial rites from the preceding Hallstatt period, and of a concentration of richly...Bohemia, and back in time to the late Hallstatt period, to include the rich burials...
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La Tène
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...name to the second phase of Celtic culture ( c. 500– c. 50 bc). The origin of the culture, which replaced the Hallstatt , was contact with Greek and Etruscan influences. It was a highly war-like culture, hierarchically organized with kings...
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Austrian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...in early Paleolithic times. Though little remains of that distant period, an early Iron Age settlement was unearthed at Hallstatt in the western lake district of present-day Austria. The Celts arrived around 400 B.C., and the Romans, in search...
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Bavarians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...by Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, and a number of Mesolithic and Neolithic peoples including the Bandkeramik, Urnfield, Hallstatt, and the Celtic La T è ne cultures, the last group being defeated by the Romans in 15 b.c. After the fall of...
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Iron Age
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...culture ) and central Europe. The Early Iron Age in central Europe, dating from c.800 BC to c.500 BC, is known as the Hallstatt period. Celtic migrations, beginning in the 5th cent. BC, spread the use of iron into W Europe and to the British Isles...
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From Late Egyptian Times to the Nineteenth Century
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...contained rests of wheat, cranberry, honey, and bog myrtle (sweet gale). (Corresponding remains have been found in the Hallstatt beer amphora found at Kulmbach dated 800 b.c.e.). In China, alcoholic beverages seem to have been present since 4000...
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Salzkammergut
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...beautiful Alpine lake district and is a summer and winter tourist center with such resorts as Bad Ischl, Sankt Wolfgang, Hallstatt, and Gmunden (all in Upper Austria) and Altaussee (in Styria). Among its lovely lakes are the Wolfgangsee or Abersee...
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Villanovan culture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...European-Danubian invasions. The Villanovans brought with them a reasonably advanced Iron Age culture, closely related to the Hallstatt culture of the E Alps. They lived over a large part of central Italy, including Etruria, Latium, and the region around...
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