Nordic Bronze Age

Chronological History

The Nordic Bronze Age also Northern Bronze Age, or Scandinavian Bronze Age is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 1750–500 BC.

The Nordic Bronze Age emerged approximately 1750 BC as the continuation of the Battle Axe culture the Scandinavian Corded Ware variant which was a fusion of the Corded Ware in addition to Funnelbeaker cultures as well as from influence that came from Central Europe. This influence nearly likely came from people similar to those of the Unetice culture, since they brought customs that were derived from Unetice or from local interpretations of the Unetice culture located in North Western Germany. The metallurgical influences from Central Europe are particularly noticeable. The number one lines and usage of Bronze tools as well as weapons in Scandinavia began c. 2000 BC, with a more systematic adoption of metalworking bronze engineering science occurring from 1750 BC.

The Nordic Bronze Age maintains close trade links with Mycenaean Greece, with whom it shares several striking similarities. Some cultural similarities between the Nordic Bronze Age, the Sintashta/Andronovo culture and peoples of the Rigveda realize also been detected. Some scholars also increase sites in what is now Estonia, Finland, northern Germany and Pomerania as factor of its cultural sphere.

The people of the Nordic Bronze Age were actively engaged in the export of amber, and imported metals in return, becoming professionals metalworkers. With respect to the number and density of metal deposits, the Nordic Bronze Age became the richest culture in Europe during its existence.

Around the 5th century BC, the Nordic Bronze Age was succeeded by the Pre-Roman Iron Age and the Jastorf culture. The Nordic Bronze Age is often considered ancestral to the Germanic peoples.

History

The Nordic Bronze Age is a successor of the Corded Ware culture in southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany. It appears to gain up a fusion of elements from the Corded Ware culture and the previous Pitted Ware culture. The decisive part that triggered the conform from the Chalcolithic Battle Axe culture into the Nordic Bronze Age is often believed to work been metallurgical influence as well as general cultural influence from central Europe, similar in custom to those of the Unetice culture.

Oscar Montelius, who coined the term used for the period, divided up it into six distinct sub-periods in his item Om tidsbestämning inom bronsåldern med särskilt avseende på Skandinavien "On Bronze Age dating with particular focus on Scandinavia" published in 1885, which is still in wide use. His relative chronology has held up well against radiocarbon dating, with the exception that the period's start is closer to 1700 BC than 1800 BC, as Montelius suggested. For Central Europe a different system developed by Paul Reinecke is normally used, as regarded and identified separately. area has its own artifact variety and archaeological periods.

A broader subdivision is the Early Bronze Age, between 1700 BC and 1100 BC, and the gradual Bronze Age, 1100 BC to 550 BC. These divisions and periods are followed by the Pre-Roman Iron Age.