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La Tène


La Tène

L0061350 (lä tĕn′)adj. Of or relating to a late Iron Age Celtic civilization dating from the fifth to the first century bc, influenced by contact with Mediterranean civilizations and flourishing throughout most of Europe north of the Alps until the Roman conquests.
[After La Tène, a district at the eastern end of the Lake of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.]

La Tène

(læ ˈtɛn) adj (Anthropology & Ethnology) of or relating to a Celtic culture in Europe from about the 5th to the 1st centuries bc, characterized by a distinctive type of curvilinear decoration. See also Hallstatt[C20: from La Tène, a part of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where remains of this culture were first discovered]

La Tène

(Fr. la ˈtɛn)
adj. 1. designating the period of the European Iron Age that followed the Hallstatt period, roughly from the 5th century b.c. to the 1st century a.d. n. 2. a shallow area at the E end of the Lake of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. [1885–90]

La Tène

Belonging to an Iron Age Celtic culture in Europe dating from the 5th to the 1st century BC, known for a characterictic curvilinear style of decoration used in artifacts.

La Tène


La Tène

(lä tĕn), ancient Celtic site on Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland, that gives its name to the second and final period of the European Iron AgeIron Age,
period in the development of industry that begins with the general use of iron and continues into modern times. In Asia, Egypt, and Europe it was preceded by the Bronze Age. It did not begin in the Americas until the coming of the Europeans.
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. It is characterized by an art style that drew upon Greek, Etruscan, and Scythian motifs and translated them into highly abstract designs in metal, pottery, and wood. The earliest phase of Tenian culture, from the 6th to the late 5th cent. B.C., spread from the middle Rhine region E into the Danube valley, S into Switzerland, and W and N into France, the Low Countries, Denmark, and the British Isles; this was the period of the first of the great Celtic (see CeltCelt
or Kelt
. 1 One who speaks a Celtic language or who derives ancestry from an area where a Celtic language was spoken; i.e., one from Ireland, the Scottish Hebrides and Highlands, the Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall, or Brittany.
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) migrations. Tenian culture flourished until subjected to the advances of the Roman Empire. The Celtic peoples of the La Tène period borrowed much from older civilizations, including the Etruscan chariot, woodworking tools that enabled them to clear temperate forests for planting, and Greek agricultural implements such as the rotary millstone. Native coinage appeared in Gaul during the latter part of the period, along with the fortified townships eventually conquered by Julius Caesar. An exceptional example of late Tenian culture is found in the ancient lake dwellings of Glastonbury, S England.
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