| | Bronze Age |
 | | The end of the Bronze Age in the Near East is normally associated with the disturbances created by large population movements in the period 1200 - 1100 BCE and the rise of new technologies and political formations, characterised as the start of the Iron Age. |
| | In central europe, the early Bronze Age Unetice culture (1800-1600 BC) with numerous local groups like Straubingen, Adlerberg and Gaban culture is followed by the middle Bronze age (1600-1200 BC) characterised by inhumation burials in tumuli (barrows). |
| | It includes the Lusatian culture in eastern Germany and Poland ((1300-500 BC) that continues into the Iron Age.\nThe central European Bronze Age is followed by the Iron Age Hallstatt culture (700-450 BC). |
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