entity · tradition_france_1_armorican_metalwork
Armorican and Breton metalwork traditions
Also known as: Armorican metalwork, Brittany Bronze Age metalwork
Regionally concentrated metalwork styles and deposition practices in Brittany and adjacent Atlantic areas.
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.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · supports distribution
Le temps des élites en Gaule atlantique: chronologie des mobiliers et rythmes de constitution des dépôts métalliques dans le contexte européen — Pierre-Yves Milcent (2012)Provides typochronological and depositional evidence.
Locator: Atlantic France chapters and catalogues - informs · contextualizes
The Bronze Age in France — Claude Mordant (2013)Provides regional framing.
Locator: Western France synthesis
Research description
The label describes artefact traditions and find distributions. It does not identify a single ethnic population or a Bronze Age political territory corresponding to modern Brittany.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Analytical label, not an ethnicity
A modern archaeological grouping that must not be equated with a named people.
Why does this record have this property?
Artefact style and deposition cannot establish self-identity or political organization.
Evidence and sources
- supports · contextualizes
The Bronze Age in France — Claude Mordant (2013)Provides regional framing.
Locator: Western France synthesis - supports · supports distribution
Le temps des élites en Gaule atlantique: chronologie des mobiliers et rythmes de constitution des dépôts métalliques dans le contexte européen — Pierre-Yves Milcent (2012)Provides typochronological and depositional evidence.
Locator: Atlantic France chapters and catalogues