The "Keltenblock" project: discovery and excavation of a rich Hallstatt grave at the Heuneburg, Germany

• Autores: Dirk Krausse, Nicole Ebinger-Rist, Sebastian Million, André Billamboz, Joachim Wahl, Elisabeth Stephan
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 91, Nº 355, 2017, págs. 108-123
• Idioma: inglés
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  • A richly furnished grave of an elite woman from the Hallstatt period was discovered close to the Heuneburg, the earliest proto-urban settlement north of the Alps. Dendrochronological analysis of timbers from the grave chamber dates the burial to 583 BC, the earliest of a series of such burials north of the Alps and a key anchor in the absolute chronology of the Early Iron Age in Europe. The woman was adorned with gold, bronze, jet and amber jewellery; gold filigree objects, amber fibulae and items of horse-head armour suggest close connections south of the Alps. An infant female burial close to the main grave included gold jewellery made for a child but similar to that of the woman.