A widespread Late Bronze Age cultural complex across central Europe defined by the practice of cremation burial in flat urnfields, considered a likely ancestor of later Celtic-speaking peoples.
Transitioned into the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture around 800 BCE, with the Hallstatt C and D phases (800–450 BCE) representing the succeeding Celtic Iron Age culture across central Europe.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Urnfield Culture — the shape you scrub through changes in 1300 BC · 1150 BC.
A focused study on the Urnfield complex — verified in Open Library as a directly relevant entry point for this specific culture.
Comprehensive treatment of the Urnfield phase in its broader Late Bronze Age European context.