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Definition of Aunjetitz in English:

Aunjetitz

Pronunciation /ˈaʊnjətɪts/

noun

rare

  • Attributive Designating an important Early Bronze Age central European culture typified by the remains found near the village of Únětice (formerly Aunjetitz), near Prague in the Czech Republic; designating remains of this type; of, relating to, or characteristic of this culture.

Origin

1920s; earliest use found in Man: a monthly record of anthropological science. From Aunjetitz (German Aunjetitz, Czech Únětice), the former name of a village (now Únětice) near Prague, in the Czech Republic, near which the type site of the Early Bronze Age Únětice culture was excavated in 1879.