Frederic P Miller

La Tène culture Frederic P Miller

Publisher Marketing: High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The La Tne culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tne on the north side of Lake Neuch[tel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857. La Tne culture developed and flourished during the late Iron Age in eastern France, Switzerland, Austria, southwest Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. To the north extended the contemporary Jastorf culture of Northern Germany. La Tne culture developed out of the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any definite cultural break, under the impetus of considerable Mediterranean influence from Greek, and later Etruscan civilizations. A shift of settlement centres took place in the 4th century. La Tne cultural material appeared over a large area, including parts of Ireland and Great Britain, northern Spain, Burgundy, and Austria. Elaborate burials also reveal a wide network of trade. In Vix, France, an elite woman of the 6th century BCE was buried with a bronze cauldron made in Greece. Exports from La Tne cultural areas to the Mediterranean cultures were based on salt, tin and copper, amber, wool and leather, furs and gold.