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Ground used as a cemetery in Bronze Age Europe, in which the ashs of cremations were buried in cinerary urns
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Urnfield culture — The Urnfield culture (c. 1300 BC 750 BC) was a late Bronze Age culture of central Europe. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns which were then buried in fields. The Urnfield culture followed the… … Wikipedia
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Urnfield culture — Late Bronze Age culture of Europe, so called because its people placed their cremated dead in urns. This culture spread from east central Europe and northern Italy in the 12th century BC and later to Ukraine, Sicily, Scandinavia, France, and… … Universalium
urnfield — /errn feeld /, n. a Bronze Age cemetery in which the ashes of the dead were buried in urns. [1885 90; URN + FIELD] * * * … Universalium
urnfield — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a Bronze Age cemetery of urn burials * * * /errn feeld /, n. a Bronze Age cemetery in which the ashes of the dead were buried in urns. [1885 90; URN + FIELD] * * * urnˈfield noun A late Bronze Age cemetery containing cinerary… … Useful english dictionary
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