Urnenfeld culture

Japanese: ウルネンフェルト文化 - ウルネンフェルトぶんか（英語表記）Urnenfeld culture

A culture from the European Bronze Age. It is usually named after the practice of cremating corpses and placing their bones in jars, and in English is called the Urnfield culture, which is translated as the cremation tomb culture. This culture was established in Central Europe in the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE. As the custom of cremation is seen in the Kisapostag culture of Hungary, it is reasonable to assume that it originated from these cultures. Eventually, this custom of cremation, along with the culture of urns and bronze implements for storing bones, spread throughout Northern Italy and other parts of Europe. It then came into contact with the Greek culture that was beginning to flourish at the time, and was replaced by the Hallstatt culture.

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Japanese:

ヨーロッパ青銅器時代の文化。通常，死体を火葬にし，その骨を甕に納めることから名づけられ，英語ではアーンフィールド文化と呼ばれて，火葬墓文化と訳されている。この文化は前2千年紀の後半に中央ヨーロッパで成立した。火葬の習慣はハンガリーのキサポスタグ文化などのなかにみられるため，これらの文化から生れたと考えるのが妥当であろう。やがて，この火葬の風習とその蔵骨用の甕と青銅器をもった文化は，北イタリアをはじめヨーロッパ各地へ広がる。そして，当時隆盛になりはじめたギリシア系の文化と接触しつつ，ハルシュタット文化に取って代られた。

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