Middle Bronze Age

The Lüneburg group is a prehistoric culture of the Bronze Age.

Temporal and regional classification

The Lüneburg group provides both a spatial and temporal link between the Middle Bronze Age and Late Bronze Age in South and Central Germany ( Reinecke BZ CD) on the one hand and the older Bronze Age of the Nordic circle ( Montelius period BZ II / III) on the other hand dar.

Its distribution area is located in the north- east of Lower Saxony between Aller and Elbe.

It was named in 1971 by Friedrich Laux, a chronological and chorologisch additional revision took place in 1985 by Martin Nagel ( MA thesis, Hamburg 1985).