European Culture History
Aegean Cultures
The term Aegean Cultures refers to the Bronze Age civilizations (ca 3100-1100 BC) which were located on islands in or near the Aegean sea.
Anglo-Saxon culture
The Anglo-Saxons were peoples who originated in northern Germany and Scandinavia who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD.
Appenine Culture
The Appenine culture is the name given to an Early Bronze Age culture in Italy, between about 1350-1150 BC.
Apulian Culture
The Apulian culture was an Iron and Bronze Age Greek colony in the boot heel region of southern Italy during the fifth century BC.
Avar Culture
The Avar culture is the name given to Slavic nomads living near the Danube River basin from the 6th through 9th centuries AD.
Baden Culture
The Baden culture is the name archaeologists have given to a culture of the central European Copper Age, related to the Bell Beaker culture and dated between about 3500-3000 BC.
Bandkeramik Culture
The Bandkeramik culture is the name given by archaeologists to the first true farming communities in central Europe, dated between between 5400 and 4900 BC.
Bell Beaker Culture
The culture known as Bell Beaker is the largest portion of the loosely grouped Beaker Folk, named for a very particular type of ceramic vessel, shaped like an upside-down bell.
Burgwall culture
"Burgwall" translates to "castle wall or barrier" in German, and the term refers to the medieval slavic culture of central Europe of the 11th century AD.
Castelluccio Culture
The Castelluccio Culture is a Bronze Age (2000-1400 BC) culture of Sicily, and the name of the type site.
Celtic Culture
The Celtic culture (or Celts) were a long-recognized cultural group of the Iron Age in western Europe, from about the 11th to the first century BC.
Chasséen Culture
Chasséen Culture is the name given to a Middle Neolithic Bell beaker culture throughout what is now France between 4500 and 2500 BC.
Cimmerian Culture
The Cimmerian culture were nomadic horse-riding people of the Russian steppes beginning about 1200 BC.
Corded Ware Culture
The Corded Ware culture or complex is the name given to a wave of people in the Neolithic period, originating from the Carpathian mountains and the area now called the Baltic States.
Cucuteni culture
The Cucuteni culture is a Neolithic/Chalcolithic civilization dated to 5400-2750 BC.
Frisians
About 2000 years ago, the Roman Empire reached the northwest coast of Germany, where (according to reports from Plinius and Tacitus) they met the formidable Frisians.
Funnel Beaker Culture
The Funnel Beaker Culture, called TRB for the abbreviation of its German name (Tricherrandbecher), is a subset of the Beaker culture.
Goths
The Goths were a loosely organized tribe from Scandinavia who were fond of wandering and somehow destroyed the Roman empire around 350 AD.
Monteoru Culture
The Monteoru Culture is the name given to the Early Bronze Age culture of Romania and Bulgaria, between about 2000 and 2500 BC.
Nagyrev culture
The Nagyrev culture was an early Bronze age culture in the Balkan region of Bulgaria and Romania.
Normans
The Normans were descendants of Vikings, who settled in the northwest France in the early 10th century AD and crossed the English Channel in 1066.
Norse
The Norse were Viking warriors who were great adventurers, traveling westward from the Viking homeland to Iceland, Greenland, and yes, even Canada.
Ostrogoths
The Ostrogoths were a Germanic kingdom in Italy, one of six major Germanic tribes to run things in Europe after the end of the Roman Empire.
Pen'kovka Culture
The Pen'kovka culture is a 6th century Slavic culture located in the Ukraine.
Pit Grave Culture
The Pit Grave Culture is the relatively unimaginative name given to a Bronze Age culture of the 4th-3rd millennia BC in eastern Europe.
Prague-Korchak Culture
The Prague-Korchak culture is a fifth through seventh century AD cultural group located in southern Poland, western Ukraine and north-eastern Slovakia.
Przeworsk Culture
The Przeworsk Culture is considered by some archaeologists as one of the original cultures which led to the Slavic spread, between 2nd century BC and the 4th century AD.
Remedello Culture
The Remedello Culture refers to a Bronze Age culture in northern Italy and Switzerland between about 2800 and 2600 BC.
Rössen Culture
The Rössen Culture is the name given to a Neolithic culture dated between 4500-3500 BC.
Scythians
The Scythians were a nomadic horse-riding society that pretty much ruled all of Central Asia during the 6th and 7th centuries BC.
Slavic Cultures
The Slavic culture is the collective name given to several nomadic tribes of Poland and Moldavia between the 6th and 11th centuries AD
Syalakh Culture
The Syalakh Culture is the name archaeologists have given to an Early Neolithic (6500-5200 BP) culture of Siberia
Timber Grave Culture
The name Timber Grave Culture (or Srubnaya) refers to a group of pastoralists who lived in substantial villages in the arid steppes and semi-desert areas of Asia
Vandals
The Vandals were a rowdy people living on the Rhine River in the 5th century AD, who swept through raiding and pillaging most of what is now France and Spain in the space of three years.