Corded Ware Culture


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Corded Ware Culture

 

a group of archaeological cultures of the late Aeneolithic period and the Bronze Age in Central and Eastern Europe and of the Neolithic period in Northern Europe. Among the common features shared by the cultures are the pottery, decorated with cord impressions or with hatching resembling cords, as well as polished perforated stone battle axes, (hence the alternate name of the Corded Ware culture—the Battle-ax culture). The cultures also have many differences, and therefore the question of whether they belong to a single ethnic group has yet to be resolved, although it is believed that their bearers were Indo-European tribes, ancestors of the Slavs, Germans, and Baits.

REFERENCE

Mongait, A. L. Arkheologiia Zapadnoi Evropy: Kamennyi vek. Moscow, 1973.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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(16) The emergence of the Fatyanovo-Balanovo cultures has traditionally been dated to the first quarter of the 3rd millennium cal BC (see Carpelan & Parpola 2001, 86; Krainov 1992), that is, a few hundred years later than the wide-spread pan-European Horizon of other Corded Ware cultures. However, in the Encyclopedia of Indo-European cultures, this cultural complex is considered to have emerged at the same time as the other western Corded Ware cultures, that is, ca.
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