Atlantic Bronze Age

Atlantic Bronze Age appears on the timeline as a people or culture of France and the Low Countries (Europe) from c. 1300 to 700 BCE, a span of 600 years. The language of its people is unknown or undeciphered.

A seaborne trading network from Portugal to Scotland that shared bronze swords, cauldrons and feasting gear, centred on the Atlantic coasts of France and Iberia.

See Atlantic Bronze Age on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates: c. 1300 to 700 BCE
Duration: 600 years
Type: People or culture
Region: France and the Low Countries, Europe
Language family: Unknown or undeciphered

Events in Europe during its time

1200 BCE Late Bronze Age collapse
776 BCE First Olympic Games
753 BCE Traditional founding of Rome

Neighbours in Europe

Greek city-states c. 800 to 338 BCE
Sparta c. 900 to 192 BCE
Etruscan civilization c. 720 to 90 BCE
Kingdom of Macedon c. 700 to 168 BCE
Syracuse c. 734 to 212 BCE
Mycenaean Greece c. 1600 to 1100 BCE
Roman Kingdom c. 753 to 509 BCE
Phoenician colonies in Iberia c. 800 to 237 BCE
Magna Graecia c. 750 to 272 BCE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
Shang dynasty c. 1600 to 1046 BCE, East Asia
New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550 to 1069 BCE, North and West Africa
Neo-Assyrian Empire 911 to 609 BCE, Middle East
Hittite Empire (New Kingdom) c. 1400 to 1180 BCE, Middle East

Questions

When did Atlantic Bronze Age exist?

c. 1300 to 700 BCE, about 600 years. These dates are approximate, because the evidence for its beginning or end is uncertain.

Where was Atlantic Bronze Age?

France and the Low Countries, in Europe.

What language did the people of Atlantic Bronze Age speak?

It is unknown. No readable writing records it, so any link to a known language family is a hypothesis.