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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Celtic culture
Iron Age culture
archaeological culture
historical culture area
artStyle La Tène culture
surface form: "La Tène art"

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 La Tène culture
surface form: "Hallstatt culture"
economy metalworking
salt extraction
trade in copper
trade in iron
trade in wine
hasPart Helvetii
Lepontii
Norici
Raetic people
surface form: "Rhaetian Celts"

Vindelicia
surface form: "Vindelici"
influencedBy Etruscans
surface form: "Etruscan culture"

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

Gaulish
Lepontic
languageFamily Celtic languages
locatedIn Alps
Austria
Central Europe
Eastern Alps
Eastern France
Northern Italy
southern Germany
surface form: "Southern Germany"

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

late Hallstatt period
writingSystem Lepontic alphabet
North Italic alphabet
surface form: "North Italic alphabets"

Referenced by (4)

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Lepontic language culturalContext Alpine Celtic culture
Tessin historicallyAssociatedWith Alpine Celtic culture
Iron Age occursIn Alpine Celtic culture
this entity surface form: "Celtic Europe"
Gaul partOf Alpine Celtic culture
this entity surface form: "Celtic world"