Bronze Age Europe

thumb|300px|Maiden Castle, Dorset|Maiden Castle in England is one of the largest hillforts in Europe. Photograph taken in 1935 by Major George Allen (1891–1940).

The Proto-Indo-Europeans are a postulated prehistoric ethnolinguistic group of Eurasia who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE), the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.

motif of a circle containing four or more spokes forming a cross

prehistoric cemetery lacking above-ground structures, buildings, or grave markers

thumb|220px|The summit of Tatićev Kamen Kokino () is a Bronze Age archaeological site in the Republic of North Macedonia, approximately 30 km from the town of Kumanovo, and about 6 km from the Serbian border, in the Staro Nagoričane Municipality. It is situated between about 1010 and 1030 m above sea level on the Tatićev Kamen (Татиќев камен) summit and covers an area of about 90 by 50 meters, overlooking the eponymous hamlet of Kokino.

archaeological treasure trove found in 1963

thumb|375px|A pair of simple wrought-iron andirons, 1780s, America thumb|375px|A drawing of andirons in use thumb|375px|French, late 18th century. Gilt-bronze fronts, with [[wrought iron behind]]

Bronze Age artefact

Type of burial

linear arrangement of upright, parallel megalithic standing stones

thumb|Filitosa thumb|Filitosa left|thumb|Filitosa V Filitosa is a megalithic site in southern Corsica, France. The period of occupation spans from the end of the Neolithic era and the beginning of the Bronze Age, until around the Roman times in Corsica.

thumb|300px|Archaeological cultures of the Bronze Age associated with the Nordwestblock area The Nordwestblock (German, "Northwest Block") is a hypothetical Northwestern European cultural region that some scholars propose as a prehistoric culture in the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, far-northern France, and northwestern Germany, in an area approximately bounded by the Somme, Oise, Meuse and Elbe rivers, possibly extending to the eastern part of what is now England, during the Bronze and Iron Ages from the 3rd to the 1st millennia BCE, up to the onset of historical sources, in the 1st centu

Oldest reconstructed stratum of European hydronymy

Archeological age

archaeogenetic name for an ancestral genetic component

crescent-moon shaped late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age necklace or collar

kurgan in Russia

use of large stones as an artistic medium

bronze casts with religious meanings

thumb|right|200px|A palstave with an additional loop. A palstave is a type of early bronze axe. It was common in the middle Bronze Age in northern, western and south-western Europe. In the technical sense, although precise definitions differ, an axe is generally deemed to be a palstave if it is hafted by means of a forked wooden handle kept in place with high, cast flanges and stop bar. The axe should be much thicker on the blade side of the stop bar than the hafting side (Schmidt and Burgess 1981, p. 115). In these respects, it is very close, but distinct from, earlier 'flanged axes'. Palstav

mediterranean Late Bronze Age metal slabs

bronze Age European tablets

period of history

stone artefact from Western Brittany

right|thumb|250px|Goloring Reconstruction The Goloring is an ancient earthworks monument located near Koblenz, Germany. It was created in the Bronze Age era, which dates back to the Urnfield culture (1200–800 BCE.). During this time a widespread solar cult is believed to have existed in Central Europe.