Early European economy – northern Europe
Abrigo del Ciervo, Spain, ca. 6000 BC: Early European economy Hunting and gathering The first people in Europe lived by hunting and gathering; they probably had both dogs and bows [...]
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What did people wear in northern Europe?
A pair of pants (braccae) from Germany from the 400s AD German clothing was like the clothing of Central Asia in that German men, and often women, wore pants under [...]
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Iron Age art of northern Europe
Iron Age art: Villanovan cremation urn with helmet on top (ca. 900 BC) Is it okay to represent people? In the beginning of the Iron Age, about 1000 BC, people [...]
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Stone Age art of northern Europe
Stone Age art in Northern Europe: A herd of horses (Chauvet cave, France, ca. 30,000 BC) Cave paintings The first modern humans who arrived in Northern Europe, around 45,000 BC, [...]
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Bronze Age art of northern Europe
Valmonica, Italy (ca. 2000 BC?) Were artists still doing rock art? Yes! Bronze Age artists kept on carving rock art all across Europe, using it to show the new horses [...]
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Iron Age buildings of northern Europe
Iron Age buildings: a Roman bath building in Trier, in southern Germany, about 300 AD Roman buildings in northern Europe By the time of the Roman Empire, about 1 AD, [...]
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Stone Age buildings of northern Europe
Remains of a wooden temple (Ukraine, ca. 4000 BC) When modern humans first arrived in Europe from Central Asia about 45,000 BC, they weren't building houses yet, and they lived [...]
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Bronze Age buildings of northern Europe
Bronze Age architecture: Reconstruction of lake house (Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen on Lake Constance, Germany, ca. 3000 BC) Bigger and better houses in the Bronze Age As the people of Europe [...]
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Where are the Alps? Mountains in Europe
The Alps Where are the Alps? The Alps are a long row of mountains dividing southern Europe from northern Europe. France and Germany are on one side of the Alps, [...]
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Visit France with kids! Short guides
Carcassonne's well This is really two trips - one in southern France and one in northern France. In southern France, you can't do better than the castle of Carcassonne, which [...]
