Hilversum culture
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 (1770 +/-250 cal BC). 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. An indivudual without funerary context was found in the Krabbeplas artificial lake (Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland province), he was dated to 1421-1216 cal BCE, his Y-chromosome DNA was R1b-S497 (a derivation from R1b-U106). File:Zwaard van Jutphaas (24466600427).jpg|[[:nl:Zwaard_van_Jutphaas|Sword of Jutphaas]], {{Circa|1800 - 1500 BC}}, Netherlands. Length: 42.5 cm, weight: 705 g File:Zwaard van Ommerschans (39301299902).jpg|[[:nl:Zwaard van Ommerschans|Sword of Ommerschans]], Netherlands, {{Circa|1500 BC}}. Length: 68.3 cm, weight: 2.8 kg File:Overzicht op gerestaureerde grafheuvel, nr. 1B, bij Toterfout, uit de Midden-Bronstijd, omgeven door een achtvormige greppel - Veldhoven - 20528441 - RCE.jpg|Burial mound, Netherlands File:M 11 bij Halfmijl, afzetting van houten palen - Veldhoven - 20528428 - RCE.jpg|Burial mound, Netherlands File:Boerderijen die gebouwd werden in de ijzertijd en bronstijd leken veel op elkaar Hunebedden centrum Borger.
