Castro culture
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 118 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5093-5166-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Castro culture (Asturian: cultura castriega, Galician: cultura castrexa, Portuguese: cultura castreja, Spanish: cultura castrena) is the archaeological term for naming the archaeological culture of the northwestern regions of the Iberian Peninsula (roughly present-day northern Portugal, together with Galicia, Asturias, and northern and western Leon in Spain) from the end of the Bronze Age (c. 9th century BC) until it was subsumed in local Roman culture. The most notable characteristics of this culture are, first, its walled oppida and hill forts, known locally as castros, from Latin castrum "castle", and second, the absence of visible burial practices, in spite of the frequent depositions of prestige items and goods, swords and other metallic riches in rocky outcrops, rivers and other aquatic contexts, since the Atlantic Bronze Age. This cultural area extended east to the Cares river, and south beyond the Douro. Данное издание представляет...
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