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		The most beautiful hiking routes around the lake of Hallstatt
		The music plays here: Every Thusday from end of May to the middle of September it is show-time in the World-Culture Community.
		Series of concerts "Eisklang" (the sound of ice) with prosecco reception and the Eisklang Buffet in the giant ice caves of the Dachstein Mountains.
	www.hallstatt.net /index.php?lang=en-iso-8859-15 (0 words)

	Geology History Provence, - by Provence Beyond (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hallstatt Culture: (from about 750 to 450 BC) is characteristic of an early stage of the Iron Age in western Europe (named from an Austrian village).
		This early part of the iron age is characterized by elaborate funeral rites and is marked by an increasing use of iron and an increasing skill in ironwork.
		Hallstatt art remains in geometric-patterned ironwork, bronze work and pottery, used especially as grave furniture.
	www.beyond.fr /history/geology.html (587 words)

	Hallstatt Culture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hallstatt remains one of the richest known cemeteries of its kind, with a wide range of weapons, brooches, pins, and pottery.
		In the fourth century B.C.E., Hallstatt was devastated by a vast landslide.
		It is during the Hallstatt C period that we start to see fortified settlements on hilltops north of the Alps with greater frequency.
	www.celticcorner.com /hallstatt.html (663 words)

	Virtual Vienna Net - Through Billie Ann's Eyes - Hallstatt's White Gold - Salt
		Hallstatt, one of Austria's oldest settlements, as well as one of its prettiest, is home to the oldest salt mine in the world.
		What has become known as the Hallstatt Age in archeology dates from the 8th to 4th centuries BC and marks the Early Iron Age and the movement of the Celtic tribes to the area from the east.
		Hallstatt's colorful old houses, many dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, are tucked into the village's many staggered nooks and crannies.
	www.virtualvienna.net /columns/billie/hallstatt/hallstatt.html (1266 words)

	Hallstatt, The Physical Tour
		Hallstatt, a tiny Austrian town in the Alps had haunted me since the day I first saw it at the tail-end of a Rick Steves video.
		I had seen one picture of Hallstatt on the net, this is not it but is one I took from virtually the same angle, had had several exchanges on Eurotrip with people who had been around but not to Hallstatt; had researched the net on the Celtic Culture of the time.
		Hallstatt, though, moved me to break out the old, trusty Mamiya and its weighty zoom apparatus, dinosaurs both, on par with the dodo.
	www.eurotrip.com /destinations/lstwrdonhallstatt2 (2351 words)

	Hallstatt
		Hallstatt in the Dachstein Mountains of the Austrian Alps is probably best known for its prehistoric cemetery, from which the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture derives its name.
		Using material from the abundant early Iron Age burials, Reinecke defined the periods Hallstatt C and D, which today are generally accepted divisions of the early Iron Age of Central Europe (ca.
		The nearby Hallstatt salt mine, which was exploited in late medieval times (after AD 1311), has since revealed material left behind by prehistoric miners, including bodies of possible accident victims.
	www.athenapub.com /hallstatt.htm (817 words)

	Hallstatt Culture - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hallstatt Culture, an early Iron Age culture in central and western Europe and the Balkans.
		It is named after the village of Hallstatt, about 225 km...
		Culture, a word in common use but with complex meanings, derived, like the term broadcasting, from the treatment and care of the soil and of what...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Hallstatt_Culture.html (178 words)

	Symposium: Hallstatt-Textiles
		The Austrian Textile Research Society (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Textilkunstforschung; TKF) and the Department of Prehistory of the Natural History Museum, Vienna are jointly organizing a conference on the prehistoric textiles from Hallstatt, to be held from the 4th to 6th of June 2004.
		In 1997 the Hallstatt region was granted UNESCO World Heritage status because of its unique cultural and natural environment.
		Visitors are particularly welcome in the Hallstatt Museum, newly opened in 2002, as well as in the charnel house of the Catholic Parish Church and the exhibition galleries of the salt-mine itself.
	members.aon.at /textile-techniken/TKF/main_e.html (395 words)

	Museum Hallstatt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is one of the habits of prehistoric research to unite groups of finds of the same character into cultures“ and name them after an important site of discovery.
		For this reason the culture of the Early Iron Age in Middle Europe from the 800 - 500 B.C, was named Hallstatt Culture“.
		The burial ground of Hallstatt, a cemetery at the foot of the salt mine used at that time, high above the centre of today’s Hallstatt, was discovered in 1846.
	www.museum-hallstatt.at /html/hallkulturen.html (127 words)

	myArmoury.com - Leaf shaped blades (La Tene, Hallstatt, other) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hallstatt is further subdivided into eras which relate primarily to changes in material culture, including swords.
		Between Hallstatt C and D the swords was gone and the sign of the "rich men" was the dagger.
		The general opinion is, that the hallstatt period was either peaceful then an era of war.
	www.myarmoury.com /talk/viewtopic.php?p=86887 (3061 words)

	Hallstatt Austria - Hallstatt: Ancient History & Timeless Beauty
		Because of archeological discoveries in the Hallstatt burial grounds, the Early Iron Age (800BC - 400BC) is called The Hallstatt Period.
		The Hallstatt graveyard is so small, that after 12 years they would dig up the bones, decorate them, and put them in the chapel.
		When in Hallstatt, be sure to dine at the historic Bräugasthof, which has been a part of Hallstatt history since at least 1472.
	www.globosapiens.net /travel-information/Hallstatt-1096.html (1109 words)

	Hallstatt - Wikitravel
		Considered by some to be one of the most beautiful places on earth, Hallstatt, "the pearl of Austria", is a small picturesque town with ancient history going back thousands of years (bronze age).
		It is located on a narrow slip of land between the lake and the sheer rising mountains.
		Hallstatt Salt Worlds[2] will take you into the more than 250 year old salt mines to explore its underground beauty.
	wikitravel.org /en/Hallstatt (344 words)

	Salzkammergut - World Cultural Heritage Site Hallstatt—Dachstein
		The world culture committee justified its decision with the words: "In the alpine region of Hallstatt - Dachstein / Salzkammergut it is an extraordinary example of a natural landscape of unique beauty and of a particular scientific significance, which bears witness to early and continuous economic and cultural human activity.
		Owing to this distinction the region of Hallstatt - Dachstein / Salzkammergut is now classed in the same category in the UNESCO listings as the Pyramids of Gizeh, the Cologne Cathedral, the archaeological excavations of Pompeii, the Great Wall of China and the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador to mention but a few examples.
		The Hallstatt salt mine is the oldest managed mining concern worldwide, which is still running today.
	www.salzkammergut.at /sixcms/detail.php?id=32357&_lang=e (623 words)

	Rick Steves' Europe: Communing with Nature in Hallstatt
		The Salzkammergut's pride and joy is the town of Hallstatt.
		Bullied onto its lakeside ledge by a selfish mountain, Hallstatt seems tinier than it is. Its pint-size square is surrounded by ivy-covered guest houses and cobbled lanes.
		Hallstatt outgrew its little ledge, and many of its buildings climb the mountainside, with the street level on one side being three floors above the street level on the other.
	www.ricksteves.com /plan/destinations/austria/hallstat.htm (667 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		We visited Hallstatt earlier this month (May 2004) and were quite satisfied with a day trip from Salzburg, especially since the weather was cool and damp.
		Hallstatt's charms can be compromised by the hordes of tourists that descend on its few streets.
		Therefore, it's highly recommended that you stay for at least one overnight (two is preferable) to experience the village early and late in the day when many of its visitors are snug in their American-style hotels.
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34501051&numresponses=4&start=0 (566 words)

	Celts - Hallstatt and La Tene cultures
		Hallstatt C saw the construction of fortified hilltop settlements to the North of the Alps.
		By the time of the Hallstatt D period, these increasingly extravagant burial mounds were clustered around a few major hillforts to the southwest of the region.
		Over the period from 1846 to 1863, a thousand graves were found at Hallstatt, with an astonishing range of artefacts, including clothing and saltmining equipment as well as weapons, jewellery, pottery and imported bronze vessels in the "chieftains'" graves.
	celts.etrusia.co.uk /celtic_cultures.php (550 words)

	Hallstatt culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture during the local Bronze Age, and introduced the Iron Age.
		The community at Hallstatt exploited the salt mines in the area, which had been worked from time to time since the Neolithic, from the 8th to 5th century BC.
		Vierrädrige Wagen der Hallstattzeit ("The Hallstatt four-wheeled wagon" at Mainz).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hallstatt_culture (646 words)

	The Illyrians
		This is true of the so-called Hallstatt culture associated with the Illyrian branch of Indo-European speech.
		The similarity between Hallstatt and Germanic crania is a commonplace; and if the Reihengräber people were "Nordic", as is generally conceded, then so, in all likelihood, were the Hallstatt people.
		The Hallstatt cemetery itself dates from the middle and later thirds of the period; but the neighboring Early Hallstatt site of Statzendorf, from which a series of five crania have been taken, contains nothing but long-headed examples, and these are the same as those from the type site itself.
	www.snpa.nordish.net /chapter-VI2.htm (1779 words)

	Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		Hallstatt, a small paradise on earth in central Austria is breathtaking with its absolute beauty of natural environment.
		Hallstatt town is the centre of the region with many pretty houses and churches.
		Hallstatt train station (I’m not sure I can call it a station or not) is on the right bank of the lake, while Hallstatt is located on the left bank, so you need to take a ferry to the town, a really good way to enter this charming place.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/halstattdachstein.html (1243 words)

	Hallstatt, Austria
		Hallstatt was probably my favorite or second favorite place we stayed.
		This is looking down at the lake Hallstatt is on from the ice cave.
		Hallstatt is the town on the far side of the water.
	www.end.com /~jynx/travel/europe/hallstat.html (555 words)

	Index to Celtic Culture Part I by Elkin Vanaeon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hallstatt is a village in Central Austria at which was found an important cemetery; La Tène is near the north-eastern end of Lake Neuchâtel, in western Switzerland.
		In rough terms the Hallstatt culture existed from approximately 1200 to 500 B.C.E., with some overlap of the Urnfield culture.
		Whereas the Hallstatt culture probably consisted of many different peoples and language groups, the La Tène culture can truly be termed "Celtic".
	members.aol.com /tammuz69/home/Index/History/Proto_Celts.html (4896 words)

	Hallstatt, Austria. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Topography, elevations, location of Hallstatt on the Hallstättersee, modern and ancient mines, and cemeteries (dark grid).
		Hallstatt on Lake Hallstatt, in Austria: a tiny town perched on the edge of the lake under the "foothills" of the Dachsteingebirge.
		The Hallstatt cemetery, where nearly 1000 early Iron Age graves have been found, approaches the vertical as it rises above the lake toward the salt mines in the shadow of the Plassen.
	ccwf.cc.utexas.edu /~cmw/CMW/Fun/Hallstatt.html (191 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hallstatt
		Hallstatt HALLSTATT [Hallstatt], village, Upper Austria prov., W central Austria, in the Salzkammergut, on the Lake of Hallstatt.
		The term Hallstatt now refers to late Bronze and early Iron Age culture in central and western Europe.
		Hidden depths; With its gorgeous lake, cosy bars and real-life lederhosen wearers, the Austrian village of Hallstatt is a classic mountain resort - with an unsettling history, says Ray Kershaw.(Features)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Hallstatt (315 words)

	HALLSTATT - Online Information article about HALLSTATT
		Noricum (q.v.) less than 40 M. from Hallstatt, were the most famous iron mines of antiquity, which produced the Noric iron and Noric swords so prized and dreaded by the See also:
		Greaves were found at Glasinatz and Jezerin, though not at Hallstatt; two helmets were found at Hallstatt and others in Bosnia; broad bronze belts were numerous, adorned in repousse with beast and geometric ornament.
		pin (" Peschiera " type) and the " spectacle " or " Hallstatt " type found all down the Balkans and in Greece.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/HALLSTATT.html (1072 words)

	Lynne's Pictures :: Hallstatt
		Afterwards we came back down the mountain and drove back to the tiny town of Hallstatt.
		Unfortunately, it was too late to rent a boat and go out on the lake.
		Hallstatt was one of the best places we went on the trip.
	www.gweep.net /~lynne/gallery/album05?page=3 (111 words)

	Show Mines of Austria: Hallstatt
		Hallstatt, A1 (E55) exit 234 Gmunden, follow B145 through Gmunden, Bad Ischgl, and Bad Goisern.
		Until 1964 this was in Hallstatt, then a pipeline was built and today the water is pumped to Ebensee.
		So mine visits include the ride on the funicular, the preparation for the tour with helmet and white miners clothes, a ride on a mine train into the mine, and inside the ride on the wooden chute.
	www.showcaves.com /english/at/mines/Hallstatt.html (557 words)

	Hallstatt Age in Slovakia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As simple rule of history, the time of stabilization is replaced by destruction and devastation: this time clearly nomadic tribes of Scythic (or akin) origin are the actors, either by direct presence or by destruction of trade and exchange routes.
		The end of Hallstatt period belongs culturally to Vekerzug culture (in older literature called Alföld group of Scythian culture).
		Eastern Slovakia was from the beginning of Hallstatt period the part of the nomadic cultural sphere.
	www.mujweb.cz /veda/archaeology/hallstatt_03.htm (1253 words)

	Hallstatt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hallstatt, Upper Austria, market town in the district of Gmunden, alt.
		, on the south-western shore of Lake Hallstatt, at the foot of the Plassen mountain (1,953 m), in the Salzkammergut region; centre of navigation on Lake Hallstatt.
		Hallstatt Culture); magnificent funerary objects are evidence of the wealth accumulated through salt mining; Roman settlement in the Lahn quarter at the entrance to the Echerntal valley; curtain waterfalls of the Spraterbach stream, Waldbachstrub (95 m high waterfalls), glacier garden.
	aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at /aeiou.encyclop.h/h115463.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en (218 words)

	Museum Hallstatt
		waren so bedeutend, dass eine ganze Kulturperiode nach diesem Ort benannt wurde – die Hallstatt - Kultur (850 – 500 v.Chr.)
		Machen Sie eine Zeitreise von der Steinzeit bis in die Gegenwart – neben den einzigartigen Exponaten aus den verschiedensten
		Zeitabschnitten erleben Sie virtuell und visuell die Geschichte unserer Heimat am Beispiel Hallstatt.
	www.museum-hallstatt.at (0 words)

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