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The examined individuals of the Hallstatt culture and La Tène culture were genetically highly homogeneous and displayed continuity with the earlier Bell Beaker culture. They carried about 50% steppe-related ancestry. [44] A genetic study published in iScience in April 2022 examined 49 genomes from 27 sites in Bronze Age and Iron Age France ...
La Tène is a protohistoric archaeological site on the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Dating to the second part of the European Iron Age it is the type site of the La Tène culture , which dates to about 450 BCE to the 1st century BCE and extends from Ireland to Anatolia and from Portugal to Czechia .
[1] By the 3rd century, the native inhabitants of Pannonia were almost completely Celticized. [2] La Tène remains are found widely in Pannonia, but finds westward beyond the Tisza and south beyond the Sava are rather sparse. [2] These finds are deemed to have been locally produced Norican-Pannonian variation of Celtic culture.
Distribution of fortified oppida, La Tène period. An oppidum (pl.: oppida) is a large fortified Iron Age settlement or town. Oppida are primarily associated with the Celtic late La Tène culture, emerging during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, spread across Europe, stretching from Britain and Iberia in the west to the edge of the Hungarian Plain in the east.
The site of the Celtic settlement on the southern slope of the Sandberg ridge, believed to have been densely populated in the 3rd century BC The Sandberg ridge (situated at 48°39′0″N 15°58′0″E / 48.65000°N 15.96667°E / 48.65000; 15.96667 ) separates the villages of Platt and Roseldorf in the district of Hollabrunn
The western La Tène culture corresponds to historical Celtic Gaul. Whether this means that the whole of La Tène culture can be attributed to a unified Celtic people is difficult to assess; archaeologists have repeatedly concluded that language and material culture do not necessarily run parallel.
From all the different names of the same Celtic people in literature and inscriptions, it is possible to abstract a Continental Celtic segment, boio-. [5] There are two major derivations of this segment, both presupposing that it belongs to the family of Indo-European languages: from 'cow' and from 'warrior.' The Boii would thus be either 'the ...
The Princely Grave of Rodenbach (German: Fürstengrab von Rodenbach) is a Celtic burial mound, dating to the 5th century BC, located near Rodenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Excavations of the site, which was found in 1874, yielded artifacts that amounted to the most significant find of the La Tène Culture north of the Alps. Visitors to ...