Nordic Bronze Age

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The Nordic Bronze Age was a prehistoric cultural period in Scandinavia, roughly 1700–500 BCE, marked by advanced metalworking, rich rock art traditions, and extensive trade networks across Northern Europe.

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Label Occurrences
Nordic Bronze Age canonical 4
Nordic Bronze Age culture 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bronze Age culture
archaeological culture
prehistoric period
appliesToPart Jutland
Norwegian coastline
surface form: Norwegian coast

Scandinavia
southern Sweden
burialCustom barrows
cremation
inhumation
ship settings
stone cists
country Denmark
Finland
Germany
Norway
Poland
Sweden
endTime circa 500 BCE
followedBy Germanic Iron Age
surface form: Nordic Iron Age

Germanic Iron Age
surface form: Pre-Roman Iron Age
follows Corded Ware culture
surface form: Battle Axe culture

Corded Ware culture
Neolithic period
surface form: Nordic Stone Age
hasCharacteristic advanced metalworking
elite warrior culture
extensive trade networks
hierarchical social structure
large burial mounds
maritime orientation
rich rock art traditions
sun cult symbolism
hasPart Period I
Period II
Period III
Period IV
Period V
Period VI
hasSite Kivik King’s Grave
Tanum rock carvings
Trundholm Sun Chariot
influenced Germanic Iron Age
Germanic mythology
Scandinavian rock art tradition
languageFamily Proto-Germanic
surface form: Proto-Germanic (hypothesized)
mainActivity agriculture
animal husbandry
bronze metallurgy
long-distance trade
partOf Bronze Age
surface form: European Bronze Age
produced bronze axes
bronze ornaments
bronze razors
bronze swords
petroglyphs
rock carvings
spiral jewelry
sun discs
religion fertility cults
sun worship
startTime circa 1700 BCE
tradedWith British Isles
Central Europe
Mediterranean Basin
surface form: Mediterranean region

Mycenaean civilization
surface form: Mycenaean Greece
usesMaterial amber
bronze
gold
stone
wood

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

Tanum heritageTheme Nordic Bronze Age
Vitlycke culturalContext Nordic Bronze Age
Vitlycke Museum focusesOnPeriod Nordic Bronze Age
Jastorf culture follows Nordic Bronze Age
Jastorf culture influencedBy Nordic Bronze Age
this entity surface form: Nordic Bronze Age culture