Identification of the Hallstatt culture
Identificación de la cultura de Hallstatt
- Date
- 1846 · confidence high
- Place
- Hallstatt, Austria
- Credited to
- Johann Georg Ramsauer
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Mine foreman Johann Georg Ramsauer locates and excavates an extensive prehistoric cemetery near Hallstatt, which gives its name to the culture of the early European Iron Age.
Ramsauer excavated over 1,000 graves over several decades; the four-phase chronological classification (A-D) was established by Paul Reinecke in 1902.
What it led to
- Definition of the early European Iron Age (Hallstatt culture)
- Paul Reinecke's Hallstatt A-D phase chronology (1902)
- Systematic cemetery archaeology in Central Europe