Wonderful conditioned pottery (cup/dish) of the
European Lausitz ( Lusatian ) Culture (1300-500 BC).
Almost perfect condition after more than 3000 years!
Only a small part at the edge has been restored.
Perfect or almost perfect conditioned Central European pottery
is extremly hard to find, this is really a very special offer!
  The Lusatian culture is one of the most important European cultures
and existed in the later Bronze Age and early  Iron Age in Germany, most of Poland,  parts of Czech Republic and Slovakia (in older articles  described also as Czechoslovakia) and parts of Ukraine.  It covers the Periods Montelius III (early Lusatian culture)  to V of the Northern-European chronological scheme.
The Lusatian culture developed from the Proto-Lusatian  culture and the Trciniec-culture under some influence of the  middle bronze Age Tumulus bronze Age ( Hügelgräberkultur ).  It is contemporaneous with the Urnfield culture ( Urnenfelder ) that is found from eastern France via southern Germany and Austria  to Hungary and the Nordic Bronze Age in northwestern Germany  and Scandinavia.  It is followed by the early Iron Age Billendorf culture in the West.  In Poland, the Lusatian culture is taken to span part of  the Iron Age as well (the is only a terminological difference)  and is succeeded by the Pommeranian culture.  Burial was by cremation, inhumations are rare. The urn is  usually accompanied by numerous, up to 40 secondary vessels.  Metal grave gifts are sparse, but there are numerous hoards  (e.g. Kopaniewo, Pomerania) that contain rich metalwork,  both bronze and gold (hoard of Eberswalde, Brandenburg).  Graves containing moulds, like at Bataune, Saxony or tuyeres  attest the production of bronze tools and weapons at village level.  The 'royal' tomb of Seddin , Brandenburg, Germany, covered by a  large earthen barrow contained Mediterranean imports like  bronze-vessels and glass beads. Cemeteries can be quite large  and contain thousands of graves.
Well known settlements include Biskupin in Poland and Buch  near Berlin. There are both open villages and fortified  settlements on hilltops or in swampy areas. The ramparts were  constructed of wooden boxes filled with soil or stones.
The economy was mainly based on arable agriculture,  as is attested by numerous storage pits. Wheat (emmer)  and six-row barley formed the basic crops, together with millet,  rye and oats, peas, broad beans, lentils and gold of pleasure  (Camelina sativa). Flax was grown, and remains of domesticated  apples, pears and plums have been found. Cattle and pigs were  the most important domestic animals, followed by sheep, goats,  horses and dogs. Pictures on Iron Age urns from Silesia attest  horse riding, but horses were used to draw chariots as well.  Hunting was practiced, as bones of red and roe deer, boar,  bison, elk, hare, fox and wolf attest, but did not provide much of the meat consumed. The numerous frog-bones found at  Biskupin may indicate that frog's legs were eaten as well.
Hoards in swampy areas are considered by some archaeologists as  'gifts for the Gods'. Human bones in 5m deep sacrificial pits in Lossow (Brandenburg) might point to human sacrifice and probably  cannibalism.
History of research 'Lausitz-type' burials were first described by the German doctor  and archaeologist Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902). The name refers to  the Lusatia (Lausitz) area in eastern Germany  (Brandenburg and Saxony) and Poland. Virchow identified the  pottery as 'pre-Germanic' but refused to speculate on the  ethnic identity of their makers.
Numerous Czech (Píc, Niederle, Cervinka) and Polish  (Majewski, Kostrzewski, Kozlowski) authors believed the  Lusatians to be Proto-Slavs, while the German archaeologist  A. Götze saw them as Thracian, and G. Kossinna first as  Karpo-Dacian, a tribe mentioned by Zosimus and then as Illyrian.
  Today, most scholars have accepted the historical and  changing nature of ethnic groups and do not try to continue
ethnic groups known from written sources into the prehistoric period.
Provenance is an old German archeological collection.
I guarantee absolutely for the authenticity of this
artifact from the European Bronze Age.
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