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Urnfield culture distribution map (after V. Gordon Childe, 1950)
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Polity Europe

Urnfield cultures

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

c. 1300–750 BC archaeological culture of Central Europe

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How these dates were made

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

The atlas draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Urnfield cultures appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1500 BCE 3 snapshots · 500 years unattested at the widest 700 BCE
1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Europe

Ephesus

1000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Celts

Founded 1200 BCE · attested to 100 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Sargonid Assyrian Conquests

745 BCE – 631 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Landmark · Europe

Carthage

814 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Carthaginian Empire

801 BCE – 145 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions

720 BCE – 650 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Delphi

800 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1500 BCE and 700 BCE.

1400 BCE Lion Gate of Hattusa 1200 BCE Sardis 1194 BCE Trojan War & Late Bronze Age Conflicts 1100 BCE Cádiz 1000 BCE Ephesus 911 BCE Neo-Assyrian Resurgence

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Chavin Polity · Americas 1000 BCE – 100 BCE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Campaigns of Thutmose III Conflict · Middle East 1457 BCE – 1425 BCE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Abu Simbel Landmark · Middle East 1264 BCE – still standing
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