Gvardejskoe-1 1 4 Polja Ware,
Corded Ware Kanneljarvi-1 1 1 Typical Comb Ware, Polja Ware,
Corded Ware, Late Comb Ware with shallow decoration Ozernoe-3 15 352 Typical Comb Ware Kaukola 1 1 Typical Comb Ware, Nokopelto Late Comb Ware with shallow decoration Seppala 2, 4 1 1 Kierikki Ware Muolaa 1 8 Sperrings Ware, Typical Comb Telkkala Ware, Kierikki Ware Silino Sovinlahti 3 3 Typical Comb Ware, Late Comb Ware with shallow decoration Total: 23 370 Site Studies Gvardejskoe-1 Belskij, S.
One approximately 4,500-year-old individual belonged to Estonia's
Corded Ware culture.
These included migrations from both Western and Eastern Europe towards the end of the Stone Age, through expanding cultures such as the Bell Beaker and the
Corded Ware (named after their pots).
Archaeologists do not think it was a mistake or coincidence given the importance attached to funerals during the period, known as the
Corded Ware era because of the pottery it produced.
Archaeologists in the Czech Republic has claim the remains of a 5,000-year-old male in a grave might have belonged to the world's oldest known gay caveman--the reasoning behind this one being, the man in question was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the
Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age that is with its head pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs, rituals only previously seen in female graves.
Corded Ware tradition spread into the Gulf of Finland region in the 3rd millennium BC (Nordqvist & Hakala 2014, 22; Krijska et al.
Caption: During the Bronze Age, the Yamnaya culture migrated north, west and east from eastern Europe, introducing customs and genes to the younger
Corded Ware and Afanasievo cultures.
Corded Ware was first recognized in Finland by Julius Ailio, who in his groundbreaking work on Finnish Stone Age called it 'Alastaro pottery' after Alastaro Kalamaki settlement site located in south-western Finland (Ailio 1909, 92 f.).
One of those populations, the
Corded Ware culture, is represented by this woman's shell-covered skeleton excavated in Germany.
AOW groups also came into contact with
Corded Ware groups after 3000 BC, which inflicted changes in the material culture, economy and society (e.g.
This pottery type is still poorly studied, but Carpelan supposes that the influence of East Baltic Late
Corded Ware and Early Textile pottery played a notable part in its formation (Carpelan 1979, 14-15; see also Carpelan 1999, 266-268.)
It is associated with the
Corded Ware. This group is characterized by specific types of amber adornments that are almost absent in the areas located to the east and to the north from the Baltic: elongated narrow pendants, rectangular and rounded buttons with a cut along their edges, boat-shaped buttons, elongated and key-like pendants with a hole for hanging (which is drilled horizontally from the lateral side or slantwise from the upper side) (Loze 1993, fig.