The Hallstatt Culture, the Celts, and the Rise of the European Iron Age
Tides of History
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The Importance of Sword Burials in the Holstot Zone
The burial of an elite man in Virgo shows up in hundreds of graves in present-day France. These sword burials make it clear that they were hooked into the same Holstot networks that provided prestigious goods and connections to other elites elsewhere. But because their localities were so different, Alpine valleys, rolling hills in Eastern France, were flat and waterlogged low countries,. how they displayed their long distance connections and what they acquired was very different.
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