    1: Since when was the Rhine part of  the areal of Hallstatt culture?  2    The Upper Rhine had been part  of the areal of the late Hallstatt culture since  6th century BC, and by the [st century  BC, the areal of the La Téne culture covered  almost its entire length, farming a contact  with the Jastor? culturé, Le. the focus of  early Celtic-Germanic cultural contact.