During the Copper Age in the Czech lands, two main cultures dominated: the Corded Ware culture in the north and the Baden culture in the south. As these societies advanced, the Bell Beaker culture emerged, bridging the transition from the Copper Age to the Bronze Age around 2300 BCE. With the onset of the Bronze Age, the Únětice culture took root, named after a village near Prague where their artifacts and burial mounds were first unearthed in the 1870s. This culture, particularly visible in central Bohemia, was followed by the Tumulus culture in the Middle Bronze Age around 1600 BCE, marked by distinctive burial practices.
By the Late Bronze Age, the Urnfield culture introduced a shift in funerary customs, cremating their dead and placing the ashes in urns, a practice that spread across the Czech lands around 1300–800 BCE. This period culminated in the Hallstatt culture, which spanned the Late Bronze Age and into the Early Iron Age. Býčí skála Cave, a key Hallstatt site in Czechia, yielded remarkable finds, including a rare bronze bull statue. Many of these ancient sites were used by successive cultures over millennia, highlighting the Czech lands as a continuous center of cultural and societal evolution in prehistoric Europe.