event · evt_world_urnfield_transformations
Urnfield transformations across parts of Europe
Cremation cemeteries, settlement systems and material traditions changed unevenly across parts of Europe during the later Bronze Age.
What is the evidence?
observation
Cremation cemeteries, settlement systems and material traditions changed unevenly across parts of Europe during the later Bronze Age.Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1300 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: range
moderateContextual record outside all or part of the primary interval.
- informs · contextualizes
Introduction: Changing Practices and Perception of the Body — Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (2023)Provides the broad European context and heterogeneity cautions.
Locator: Later Bronze Age and Urnfield synthesis
Interpretation and caveats
The heterogeneous Urnfield horizon helps readers orient major European change without treating it as a single people or migration.
Event context
Classification
Event type: mortuary and settlement transformation
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: general world context
People and places
Locations: Central European world-context frame
Why it matters to the timeline
This event is included solely for European world-timeline orientation; no unsupported Central Asian connection is proposed.
Research notes
- Provides the broad European context and heterogeneity cautions. Role: contextualizes. Locator: Later Bronze Age and Urnfield synthesis.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Introduction: Changing Practices and Perception of the Body — Marie Louise Stig Sorensen, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (2023)Provides the broad European context and heterogeneity cautions.
Locator: Later Bronze Age and Urnfield synthesis
Referenced records
- Central European world-context frame · entity