page_title: Unetice culture
section_title: Trade
hierarchical_section_title: Unetice culture / Artefacts and characteristics / Trade
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Depotfund mit Ringschmuck und Barren der Aunjetitzer Kultur aus Wauden, 2200-1700 v. Chr.; Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz
context_page_description: The Únětice culture is an archaeological culture at the start of the Central European Bronze Age, dated roughly to about 2300–1800 BC. The eponymous site for this culture, the village of Únětice, is located in the central Czech Republic, northwest of Prague. Today, the Únětice culture is known from about 1,400 sites in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, 550 sites in Poland, and, in Germany, about 500 sites and loose finds locations. The Únětice culture is also known from north-eastern Austria, and from western Ukraine.
context_section_description: The Únětice culture had trade links with the British Wessex culture. Únětice metalsmiths mainly used pure copper; alloys of copper with arsenic, antimony, and tin to produce bronze became common only in the succeeding periods. The cemetery of Singen is an exception; it contained some daggers with a high tin content (up to 9%). They may have been produced in Brittany, where a few rich graves have been found from this period. Cornish tin was widely traded as well. A gold lunula of Irish design has been found as far south as Butzbach in Hessen (Germany). Amber was also traded, but small fossil deposits may have been used as well as Baltic amber.
caption: Various bronze artefacts, tools, and amber
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