Alpine Celtic culture

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Alpine Celtic culture refers to the Iron Age Celtic societies of the central European Alpine region, characterized by their distinct languages, art, and material traditions that blended local and wider Celtic influences.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Alpine Celtic culture canonical 2
Celtic Europe 1
Celtic world 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (62)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Celtic culture
Iron Age culture
archaeological culture
historical culture area
artStyle La Tène art
linked to: La Tène culture

curvilinear motifs
geometric ornament
burialCustoms cremation
inhumation
richly furnished warrior graves
characterizedBy fortified oppida
hillforts
long-distance trade across Alpine passes
mixed farming economy
mountainous settlement patterns
transhumant pastoralism
declineCause Roman conquest of the Alps
developedFrom Hallstatt culture
linked to: La Tène culture
economy metalworking
salt extraction
trade in copper
trade in iron
trade in wine
hasPart Helvetii
Lepontii
Norici
Rhaetian Celts
linked to: Raetic people

Vindelici
linked to: Vindelicia
influencedBy Etruscan culture
linked to: Etruscans

Italic cultures
La Tène culture
local pre-Celtic Alpine traditions
interactedWith Etruscans
Italic tribes
Roman Republic
knownFrom Classical sources
archaeological evidence
language Cisalpine Gaulish
linked to: Lepontic language

Gaulish
Lepontic
languageFamily Celtic languages
locatedIn Alps
Austria
Central Europe
Eastern Alps
Eastern France
Northern Italy
Southern Germany
linked to: southern Germany

Switzerland
Western Alps
linked to: Alps
materialCulture decorated belt fittings
fibulae
iron weapons
torcs
partOf Continental Celtic world
religion Celtic polytheism
successor Gallo-Roman culture
linked to: Romanitas
timePeriod Iron Age
La Tène period
linked to: La Tène culture

late Hallstatt period
writingSystem Lepontic alphabet
North Italic alphabets

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Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lepontic language culturalContext Alpine Celtic culture
Iron Age occursIn Celtic Europe
linked to: Alpine Celtic culture
Gaul partOf Celtic world
linked to: Alpine Celtic culture
Tessin historicallyAssociatedWith Alpine Celtic culture
Lepontine Gaul partOf Transalpine Celtic world
linked to: Alpine Celtic culture