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The Hilversum culture is a prehistoric material culture found in middle
The Hilversum culture is a prehistoric material culture found in middle Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...
in the region of the southern Netherlands
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and northern Belgium
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. It has been associated with the Wessex culture from the same period in southern England, and is one of the material cultures of this part of northwestern continental Europe which has been proposed to have had a "'' Nordwestblock''" language which was Indo-European
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, but neither Germanic nor Celtic
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The culture was bordered to its northeast by the Elp culture, to which it may have been related, and to its north by the Hoogkarspel culture.
The concept of a distinct Hilversum culture started to develop in 1950, with the excavation of grave mounds near the hamlet of and the nearby forest of Halve Mijl. An urn found there, initially classified as being of the Deverel–Rimbury type, was found to be older than was expected: radiocarbon dating pointed to 3450 BP (1770 +/-250 cal BC). This led archeologist to propose a new classification, the Hilversum type, and the conclusion that later continental Deverel pottery would have "devolved" from this type.
See Also
* Bronze Age Britain * Unetice culture *Armorican Tumulus culture
The Armorican Tumulus culture is a Bronze Age culture, located in the western part of the Armorican peninsula of France. It is known through more than a thousand burial sites covered by a tumulus or otherwise. The culture is renowned for some ...
* Nordic Bronze Age
* Argaric culture
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