A Finnish type of battle axe of corded ware culture
Corded ware is pottery having an ornamental pattern created by a cord impressed in the unfired clay. This kind of pottery was a characteristic artifact of the neolithic corded-ware culture (sometimes known as Battle-axe people. Often, the decoration only imitates cordmarks. Burial is characteristically in single graves by inhumation under a barrow. The corded-ware culture is found from the Netherlands to Poland and Switzerland. A Finnish type of boat-shaped battle-axe of corded ware culture. ... A Finnish type of boat-shaped battle-axe of corded ware culture. ... A man shapes pottery as it turns on a wheel. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Rope is also the title of a movie by Alfred Hitchcock Coils of rope used for long-line fishing A rope is a length of fibers, twisted or braided together to improve strength, for pulling and connecting. ... Clay is a generic term for an aggregate of hydrous silicate particles less than 4 μm (micrometres) in diameter. ... This article is about the archaeological concept of artifacts (or artefacts). ... The Neolithic, (Greek neos=new, lithos=stone, or New Stone Age) is traditionally the last part of the stone age. ... The name Battle-axe people (corded ware culture) identifies widely-scattered late Neolithic sites in Europe (3rd millennium BC). ... By other animals Humans are not the only species to bury their dead. ... Alternate meanings of barrow: see Barrow_in_Furness for the town of Barrow in Cumbria, England; also Barrow, Alaska in the U.S.; also River Barrow in Ireland. ...
Other cultures use cord-impressions for ornaments as well. A well known example is the AOC (for All Over Corded) vessel, considered to be an early Beaker type. Cord-impressed ware is known from Indonesia as well, where it was formerly described as Neolithic, but seems to be mainly of quite recent date. The Beaker people (or `Beaker folk) were an archaeological culture present in prehistoric Europe, defined by a pottery style -- a beaker with a distinctive bell-shaped profile -- that many archeologists believe spread across the western part of the Continent during the 3rd millennium BC. The pottery is particularly prevalent in...
The CordedWare culture, alternatively characterized as the Battle Axe culture or Single Grave culture is an enormous European archaeological horizon that begins in the late Neolithic (stone age), flourished through the copper age and finally culminates in the early bronze age, developing in various areas from ca.
The prototypal CordedWare culture, German Schnurkeramikkultur is found in Central Europe, mainly Germany and Poland, and refers to the characteric pottery of the era: wet clay was decoratively incised with cordage, i.e., string.
The eastern outposts of the CordedWare culture are the Middle Dnieper culture and on the upper Volga, the Fatyanovo-Balanovo culture.
The Pitted Ware culture (ca 3200 BC– ca 2300 BC) was a neolithic Hunter-gatherer culture in southern Scandinavia, mainly along the coasts of Svealand, Götaland, Åland, north-eastern Denmark and southern Norway.
It was first contemporary and overlapping with the agricultural Funnelbeaker culture, and later with the agricultural CordedWare culture.
Its connections with the probably pre-Indo-European Funnelbeaker culture and the probably Proto-Indo-European CordedWare culture are debated.
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