ANCIENT EUROPE

BRONZE AGE(3200BC- THE

ENTIRE 2ND MILENNIAM BC )

UNETICE CULTURE
(2300BC – 1600BC)
BY- DIPSHIKHA SARKAR
BA (III SEM)
( it is an
archeaological
culture at the start
of the central
european bronze
age ,dated to about
2300-1700bc. It is
located in the czech
republic ,northwest
of prague . Unetice
culture is known
from about 1,400
sites in the czech
republic and
slovakia , 550 sites
in poland ,and in
Germany ,about SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE
500 sites and loose UNETICE CULTURE IN CZECH
finds locations )
REPUBLIC
 IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES

 The unetice culture was discovered by Czech

surgeon and amateur archaeologist Cenek Ryzner,
who in 1879 found a cemetry of over 50 inhumations
on holy vrch,the hill overlooking the village of
unetice.
 The first uneticean burial ground was unearthed in
southern moravia in menin by A.Rzehak.
ARTEFACTS
GOLD ARTEFACTS AND GOLD CUP
 SETTLEMENTS

This is a tube ,called

AMBER BEAD
Specially appear in the contexts of
funeral areas. ( found in slovakian
bronze age sites from baltic area )
tuyere,nozzle or pipe type
which air is blown into a
furnance.this may be an
evidence that the
metallurgical activity took
place on the site.
 Funerary assemblage

Hair ring made from bronze

wire is one of the most typical
female grave assemblage of the
unetice culture.we cannot
consider hair rings to be
satisfactorily chronologically
significant artefacts.
 MUG
FUNERARY ASSEMBLAGE
EARLY BRONZE AGE (CZECH
REPUBLIC)

MINIATURE MUG
It is a BOWL .for funerary
assemblage.found in czech
republic,early bronze age.

POT
21 cm high pot decoratedwith
engraved lines and plastic jut.
 Fragment of hair ring

Decorated fragment :
a ceramic fragment
with the typical
unetice engraved and
plastic decoration
(engravings were
filled with white
color)
 Funerary
assemblag
e

The bronze wire were found

on the sodes of a skull. The
deceased man was buried in
settlement pit in the
standard (ritual) unetice
culture position.
 Various bronze
artefacts, tools
and amber

BONE AWL
A pointed tool for
marking surfaces or
piering small holes.
Burial in the settlement
object ( a storage pit ).