page_title: Hilversum culture
hierarchical_section_title: Hilversum culture
caption_attribution_description: Urne uit de Hilversum/Drakensteintraditie in handgevormd aardewerk, 1100 tot 900 VC, vindplaats: Neerharen/Rekem, Het Kamp (Hangveld), 1984, collectie Gallo-Romeins Museum Tongeren, 84.RE.12
context_page_description: The Hilversum culture is a prehistoric material culture found in middle Bronze Age in the region of the southern Netherlands and northern Belgium. It has been associated with the Wessex culture from the same period in southern England, and is one of the material cultures of this part of northwestern continental Europe which has been proposed to have had a "Nordwestblock" language which was Indo-European, but neither Germanic nor Celtic.
  The culture was bordered to its northeast by the Elp culture, to which it may have been related, and to its north by the Hoogkarspel culture.
  The concept of a distinct Hilversum culture started to develop in 1950, with the excavation of grave mounds near the hamlet of Toterfout and the nearby forest of Halve Mijl. An urn found there, initially classified as being of the Deverel–Rimbury type, was found to be older than was expected: radiocarbon dating pointed to 3450 BP. This led archeologist Willem Glasbergen to propose a new classification, the Hilversum type, and the conclusion that later continental Deverel pottery would have "devolved" from this type.
context_section_description: The Hilversum culture is a prehistoric material culture found in middle Bronze Age in the region of the southern Netherlands and northern Belgium. It has been associated with the Wessex culture from the same period in southern England, and is one of the material cultures of this part of northwestern continental Europe which has been proposed to have had a "Nordwestblock" language which was Indo-European, but neither Germanic nor Celtic.
  The culture was bordered to its northeast by the Elp culture, to which it may have been related, and to its north by the Hoogkarspel culture.
  The concept of a distinct Hilversum culture started to develop in 1950, with the excavation of grave mounds near the hamlet of Toterfout (nl) and the nearby forest of Halve Mijl. An urn found there, initially classified as being of the Deverel–Rimbury type, was found to be older than was expected: radiocarbon dating pointed to 3450 BP (1770 +/-250 cal BC). This led archeologist Willem Glasbergen (nl) to propose a new classification, the Hilversum type, and the conclusion that later continental Deverel pottery would have "devolved" from this type.
caption: Urn of the Hilversum-Drakenstein tradition, about 1000 B.C., Neerharen-Rekem (B) Gallo-roman museum, Tongres
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