Corded Ware culture

Corded Ware culture
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Geographical rangeEurope
PeriodChalcolithic
Datesc. 3000 BC – c. 2350 BC
Major sitesBronocice
Preceded byYamnaya culture, Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, Globular Amphora culture, Funnelbeaker culture, Baden culture, Horgen culture, Volosovo culture, Narva culture, Pit–Comb Ware culture, Pitted Ware culture
Followed byBell Beaker culture, Fatyanovo–Balanovo culture, Abashevo culture, Sintashta culture, Mierzanowice culture,[1] Unetice culture, Nordic Bronze Age

The Corded Ware culture comprises a broad archaeological horizon of Europe between ca. 3000 BC – 2350 BC, thus from the late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age.[2] Corded Ware culture encompassed a vast area, from the contact zone between the Yamnaya culture and the Corded Ware culture in south Central Europe, to the Rhine on the west and the Volga in the east, occupying parts of Northern Europe, Central Europe and Eastern Europe.[2][3] The Corded Ware culture is thought to have originated from the westward migration of Yamnaya-related people from the steppe-forest zone into the territory of late Neolithic European cultures such as the Globular Amphora and Funnelbeaker cultures,[4][5][6] and is considered to be a likely vector for the spread of many of the Indo-European languages in Europe and Asia.[1][7][8][9]

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  5. ^ Malmström, Helena; Günther, Torsten; Svensson, Emma M.; Juras, Anna; Fraser, Magdalena; Munters, Arielle R.; Pospieszny, Łukasz; Tõrv, Mari; Lindström, Jonathan; Götherström, Anders; Storå, Jan (9 October 2019). "The genomic ancestry of the Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture people and their relation to the broader Corded Ware horizon". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286 (1912): 20191528. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1528. PMC 6790770. PMID 31594508.
  6. ^ Papac et al. 2021.
  7. ^ Haak et al. 2015.
  8. ^ Kristiansen, Kristian (30 November 2011), "The Bronze Age expansion of Indo-European languages", Becoming European, Oxbow Books, pp. 165–182, doi:10.2307/j.ctvh1dq3m.18, retrieved 26 January 2022
  9. ^ Narasimhan 2019.