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Archaeological cultures of the Bronze Age associated with the Nordwestblock area
The Nordwestblock (German, "Northwest Block") is a hypothetical Northwestern European cultural region that some scholars propose as a prehistoric culture in the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, far-northern France, and northwestern Germany, in an area approximately bounded by the Somme, Oise, Meuse and Elbe rivers, possibly extending to the eastern part of what is now England,[citation needed] during the Bronze and Iron Ages from the 3rd to the 1st millennia BCE, up to the onset of historical sources, in the 1st century BCE.
The theory was first proposed by two authors working independently: Hans Kuhn[1] and Maurits Gysseling, whose proposal included research indicating that another language may have existed somewhere in between Germanic and Celtic in the Belgian region.[2]
The term Nordwestblock itself was coined by Hans Kuhn,[3] who considered the inhabitants of the area neither Germanic nor Celtic and so attributed to the people a distinct ethnicity or culture up to the Iron Age. So far, this has not been proven or disproven.
^Hans Kuhn, Rolf Hachmann and Georg Kossack, Völker zwischen Germanen und Kelten. Schriftquellen, Bodenfunde und Namengute zur Geschichte des nördlichen Westdeutschlands um Christi Geburt, Neumünster, Karl Wachholz, 1962. (German)
^J.B. Berns (2004) Gysseling, M. Biography. (Dutch)
^Rolf Hachmann, Georg Kossack and Hans Kuhn. Völker zwischen Germanen und Kelten, 1986, p. 183-212
The Nordwestblock (German, "Northwest Block") is a hypothetical Northwestern European cultural region that some scholars propose as a prehistoric culture...
Gaul) in late prehistory. It is often identified with the hypothetical Nordwestblock. While it remains a matter of controversy, the linguist Maurits Gysseling...
candidates for possible substrate culture(s), including the Maglemosian, Nordwestblock and Funnelbeaker culture but also older cultures of northern Europe...
nor Celtic, survived in the Netherlands until the Roman period, the Nordwestblock culture. The first author to describe the coast of Holland and Flanders...
northwestern continental Europe which has been proposed to have had a "Nordwestblock" language which was Indo-European, but neither Germanic nor Celtic....
something else, is not certain, because they lived in the so-called Nordwestblock zone where these two language families came into contact and were both...
situated along the Aller and the middle Weser rivers, bordering the Nordwestblock separating it from the La Tène culture proper farther south. The Nienburg...
language of the area, though apparently Indo-European, was not Celtic (see Nordwestblock) and that Celtic, though influential amongst the elite, might never...
through floods and through a change in identity. It is part of the Nordwestblock which is a hypothetical historic region linked by language and culture...
period. They see the Netherlands as having been part of an Iron Age "Nordwestblock" stretching from the Somme to the Weser. Their view is that this culture...
(apart from Vulgar Latin), and there may even have been an intermediate "Nordwestblock" language related to both. By the first century AD, Germanic languages...
of ultimately non-Germanic origin and connected to the hypothesized Nordwestblock. The Cherusci were a Germanic tribe living around the central Weser...
may have been a different language branch of Indo-European from the Nordwestblock culture, which may have been intermediary between Germanic and Celtic...
featuring Urnfield (cremation) burial customs (1200–800 BCE). Part of the "Nordwestblock", it is situated to the north and east of the Rhine and the IJssel (named...
language of the Belgae, being different from Celtic and thus suggesting a Nordwestblock etymology, which, generally speaking, is also assumed to be closer to...
with its own language that was neither Germanic nor Celtic, formed a Nordwestblock stretching from the Somme to the Weser and survived until the Roman...
Álava Alavese Basques Ancient Belgian Indo-European [data missing] Nordwestblock Belgae Ancient Macedonian Indo-European 0s AD Macedonia Ancient Macedonians...
the area, though apparently Indo-European, was also not Celtic (see Nordwestblock) and that Celtic, though influential amongst the elite, might never...
but distinct from, Celtic and Germanic. (See Belgian language and Nordwestblock.) The leaders of the Belgic alliance which Caesar confronted were in...
language of the area, though apparently Indo-European, was not Celtic (see Nordwestblock) and therefore that Celtic, though influential amongst the elite, might...
located in Gorssel, Oosterbeek, Vorden, Wageningen). Gallia Belgica Nordwestblock Salian Frankish Mythology Meijer, 1971. per Tacitus (1st century CE)...
Georg Kossack and philologist Hans Kuhn he published a study on the Nordwestblock ("Völker zwischen Germanen und Kelten"). In 1970, Hachmann published...
also signs of an older substrate language in the Belgic region. (See Nordwestblock.) So Celtic, while influential culturally, may never have been the main...
also signs of an older substrate language in the Belgic region. (See Nordwestblock.) So Celtic, while influential culturally, may never have been the main...
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