Visual Timeline: Hallstatt Culture

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1200 BCE - 450 BCE: Widest date range accepted by scholars for the Hallstatt culture in central Europe.
 
800 BCE - 600 BCE: The Early Iron Age Hallstatt culture is at its peak in central Europe.
 
 
600 BCE: There begins a marked increase in the use of fortifications in settlements of the Hallstatt culture in central Europe.
 
 
550 BCE - 500 BCE: The creation of the Hallstatt culture Horchdorf burial in southern Germany.
 
 
500 BCE: The creation of the Hallstatt culture Vix burial in northeast France.
 
 
450 BCE: The La Tène culture replaces the Hallstatt culture as the dominant regional culture in central Europe.
 
 
400 BCE: Salt deposits are exhausted at Hallstatt, principal site of the Hallstatt culture in central Europe.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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