What is Hallstatt?
A. Hallstatt is a small town in Austria. High above the town is the mountain Salzberg which is literally salt mountain. People have been mining salt from it since the Bronze Age. Using bronze picks, wedges, and chisels, they bored as much as 1,200 feet into the mountainside. Hundreds of years later, miners working in the Hallstatt mines sometimes came across objects used or worn by these ancient miners. These objects were preserved by the salt. The owner of the mines became very curious about these ancient miners. He started a search for more clues about them. And found the contents of 993 graves. All this was noted in a diary. All the items that were found are all from what is now called the Hallstatt era (750B.C-450B.C). So now any items found in a Celtic site that belong to this period are called after Hallstatt. The name Hallstatt is also used to describe the way of life of the Celts at that time and the artwork that they produced. Hallstatt art is mostly based on nature and they s
