Wietenberg culture
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Wietenber culture was a Bronze Age
archeological culture in Central Transilvania. Represented a local variant of Usatovo culture
and was replaced by Noua culture. Its name was coined after the eponymic Wietenberg Hill near Sighisoara
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People of this culture traded with Mycenaeans. Burial sites contain bronze battle axes and maces with stone heads. Pottery consists of amphorae with spiral and meandric ornament.
By 1964 about 200 settlements of this culture were discovered.
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...
archeological culture in Central Transilvania. Represented a local variant of Usatovo culture
Usatovo culture
Usatovo culture, 3500—3000 BC, an archaeological culture facing the Black sea between the mouths of the Bug River and the Danube in present-day Romania, Moldavia, and southern Ukraine....
and was replaced by Noua culture. Its name was coined after the eponymic Wietenberg Hill near Sighisoara
Sighisoara
Sighişoara is a city and municipality on the Târnava Mare River in Mureş County, Romania. Located in the historic region Transylvania, Sighişoara has a population of 27,706 ....
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People of this culture traded with Mycenaeans. Burial sites contain bronze battle axes and maces with stone heads. Pottery consists of amphorae with spiral and meandric ornament.
By 1964 about 200 settlements of this culture were discovered.