Kiukainen is a municipality of Finland. The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country. ...
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Satakuntaregion. The municipality has a population of 3,408 (2003) and covers an area of 149.88 km² of which 0.22 km² is water. The population density is 22.7 inhabitants per km². Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län), following a 1997 redesign that reduced their number from 12. ... The Province of Western Finland is a province of Finland. ... Satakunta is a region (maakunta / landskap) of Finland. ... Finland is divided into 20 regions (maakunta/landskap in Finnish/Swedish). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
In Kiukainen there are many ancient gravehills made from piled stones. Biggest of them is called kuninkaanhauta, "the king's grave". It is the biggest of its type in Nordic Countries. The Nordic countries (Greenland not shown) The Nordic countries is a term used collectively for five countries in Northern Europe. ...
Around 2500BC Pitted Ware starts to appear in Åland.
From about 1800BC finds from the Kiukainen culture start emerging.
The Åland Islands occupy a position of great strategic importance, commanding as they do both one of the entrances to the port of Stockholm and the approaches to the Gulf of Bothnia, in addition to being situated proximate to the Gulf of Finland.
The Bronze Age in Finland occurred between 2000 and 500 B.C. Southwestern Finland was by then permanently settled, and findings such as burial cairns have made it possible to study how the settlements spread.
The area where the finds from the 'Kiukainen' culture have been made was probably the core of the settled region.
In the east and north, the Asbestos-Ceramic and Textile-Ceramic cultures continued.
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