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The Etruscans were part of the urnfield culture. What is the best definition of that?
A
A culture from the east that came to southern Italy, named after art and style of the pottery and metalwork they produced
B
A culture that spread from central Europe to Italy, named after the custom of cremating their dead
C
A culture that spread from Carthage and Egypt in North Africa to Italy, named after the custom of preserving human organs in jars
D
A culture that spread from southern Europe to Italy, named after the type of water vessels that were used in daily life
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Urnfield culture ( c. 1300–750 BC) was a late Bronze Age culture of Central Europe, often divided into several local cultures within a broader Urnfield tradition. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns, which were then buried in fields.

Detailed explanation-2: -The emergence of urnfields in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe is certainly one of these large-scale phenomena; its wide distribution has been traditionally emphasized by the use of the general term Urnenfelderkultur/zeit (starting around 1300 BC).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Urnfield culture first appeared in east-central Europe and northern Italy; from the 12th century bc onward, however, the use of urn cemeteries, or urnfields, gradually spread to Ukraine, Sicily, Scandinavia, and across France to the Iberian peninsula-a movement perhaps associated with folk migrations.

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