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La Tène|laˈtɛn|
The name of a district at the east end of Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where archæological finds were made, used esp. attrib. to denote a culture (fl. c 3rd century b.c.) of the second Iron Age of central and west Europe, and objects found there.
[1866J. E. Lee tr. Keller's Lake Dwellings 239 A La Tène, Near Marin (Lake of Neuchâtel). This station was known and mentioned in my first report on the lake dwellings to the Society of Antiquaries at Zürich, in 1858. Note. The terms Tène (shallow) and Ténevière (submerged hillock) are provincialisms of the fishermen in the lake of Neuchâtel, and Professor Desor in his late work ‘Les Palafittes’, derives them from the Latin ‘tenuis’.] 1890R. Munro Lake-Dwellings of Europe iv. 278 In making a section through the La Tène elevation there is first encountered a bed of water-worn gravel and sand. 1905H. B. Walters Hist. Anc. Pott. II. xxiii. 502 It is interesting for its close relation to the older La Tène pottery. 1917[see beaded ppl. a. 4 b]. 1932Antiquity VI. 198 La Tène. A trading post on Lake Neuchâtel gives its name to certain cultures of the Second Iron Age. 1935Discovery Apr. 102/1 The three tumuli..proved to be Early Iron Age in date, one of them yielding a small bone plaque with advanced La Tène ornament. 1943J. & C. Hawkes Prehist. Brit. v. 94 Already when the first Hallstatt settlers were arriving in this country their kinsfolk in eastern France and south Germany were building up a new culture, that known as La Tène, which came to represent the height of early Celtic achievement. 1961Antiquaries Jrnl. XLI. 44 Barrows, or burials, within square-ditched inclosures have recently been recognized as characteristic of the La Tène cultures both in the Rhineland and in France. 1962Times 29 Mar. 15/5 The British Celts had evolved..their own superb, nonnaturalistic late-La Tène art. 1970Bray & Trump Dict. Archaeol. 130/2 An art style with La Tène elements persisted into the Early Christian period. |