Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World
6. [ancient European styles and periods]
7. [European Iron Age styles and periods]

Narrower term/s

• Early Style
• Plastic Style
• Sword Style
• Waldalgesheim Style

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to a Late Iron Age phase and culture of European Celts named for the site at La Tène, or "The Shallows," at Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It began in the mid-fifth century BCE, and it spread throughout northern Europe and the British Iles, finally disappearing in the mid-first century BCE. It is characterized by Greek and Etruscan influences on traditional Celtic culture, and by the great geographical expansion of the Celts.