What is Hallstatt Culture?
The term “Hallstatt” refers to an important central European culture of the early Iron Age of the 1st millennium BCE – centred on Austria and the Upper Danube area – which is strongly associated with the arrival of Celtic tribes from the steppes of southern Russia. It is regarded as the first clearly defined Celtic culture, and it remained the principal early civilization of the region from around 800 BCE until superceded by the La Tene culture in the fifth century BCE. Where Was Hallstatt Culture Practised? The culture was centred around Austria, but Hallstatt styles spread out into two zones: an eastern zone encompassing Slovakia, western Hungary, western Romania, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria and the Czech Republic; and a western zone which included southern Germany, Switzerland, northern Italy, and eastern France. Thus by the 6th century BCE, it extended roughly 1,000 kilometres west to east, from the Champagne-Ardenne region of France, across the Upper Rhine area of southern Germany
