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Bell-shaped burials culture

Attested 500 BCE – 100 CE

European archaeological culture, 2800–1800 BC

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 8 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Bell-shaped burials culture appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

500 BCE 8 snapshots · 101 years unattested at the widest 100 CE
500 BCE400 BCE323 BCE300 BCE200 BCE100 BCE1 BCE100 CE

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 BCE and 100 CE.

500 BCE Roman Forum 499 BCE Greco-Persian Wars 499 BCE Ionian Revolt 490 BCE Battle of Marathon 480 BCE Sicilian Wars 480 BCE Battle of Thermopylae

And in the rest of the world

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