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Pitted Ware Culture

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== '''Culture''' ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
The Pitted Ware Culture (PWC) was a Middle Neolithic hunter-gatherer culture that existed primarily in southern Scandinavia, including Sweden, Denmark, coastal Norway, and the Baltic islands, from approximately 3300 to 2300 BC. Despite existing alongside contemporary farming cultures—most notably the Funnelbeaker (TRB) and later the Corded Ware—the Pitted Ware people maintained a predominantly foraging-based maritime lifestyle.

Settlements were typically located along coasts, islands, and waterways, indicating a strong reliance on the sea. Archaeological evidence suggests relatively stable, semi-sedentary communities, with repeated occupation of the same sites over long periods. Dwellings were likely seasonal or lightly constructed, leaving limited structural remains. Their economy and daily life were strongly adapted to coastal environments, and they made extensive use of boats for fishing, sealing, and transport. <ref name=":0">Coutinho et al. (2020) — Genetic continuity despite cultural contact

📄 The Neolithic Pitted Ware culture foragers were culturally but not genetically influenced by Battle Axe herders (American Journal of Physical https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002%2Fajpa.24079?utm_source=chatgpt.com</ref>

=== Diet ===
The Pitted Ware diet was heavily focused on marine resources, setting them apart from neighboring agricultural societies. Zooarchaeological remains show a strong reliance on seal meat, particularly harp and ringed seals, which formed a dietary staple. Fish, including cod and herring, were also widely consumed, along with sea birds and shellfish. Terrestrial game such as elk and deer supplemented the diet, though to a lesser extent.

Plant foods were likely gathered seasonally, but there is little evidence for systematic agriculture. Unlike the Funnelbeaker culture, the Pitted Ware show minimal reliance on domesticated crops or livestock. Isotopic analysis of human remains consistently indicates a marine-heavy protein intake, confirming their hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy even in regions where farming was well established.<ref>Fornander, Eriksson & Lidén (2008) — Stable isotope analysis of Pitted Ware diet

📄 Wild at heart: Pitted Ware identity and diet through stable isotopes (Journal of Anthropological Archaeology)https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278416508000184</ref>

=== '''Language''' ===
The language spoken by the Pitted Ware people is unknown and cannot be directly reconstructed. Given their chronological position prior to or contemporary with early Indo-European expansions in northern Europe, they are generally considered pre–Indo-European speakers. Some scholars suggest they may have spoken languages related to earlier Mesolithic hunter-gatherer traditions of northern Europe, though no definitive linguistic evidence survives.

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
Burial practices within the Pitted Ware Culture were variable but typically involved flat graves rather than large monuments. Individuals were often buried in a supine position, sometimes sprinkled with red ocher, a practice inherited from earlier Mesolithic traditions. Graves were usually shallow and located near settlements, occasionally forming small cemeteries.

Grave goods frequently included ceramic vessels, stone tools, bone implements, and ornaments made from animal teeth or bone. The pottery for which the culture is named is characterized by distinctive pitted or stamped decoration, often arranged in geometric patterns. Unlike contemporary farming cultures, weapons and prestige items are relatively rare, suggesting a more egalitarian social structure.

== '''Genetics''' ==
Ancient DNA studies indicate that the Pitted Ware people were genetically distinct from neighboring Neolithic farming populations and retained a strong ancestry from western European hunter-gatherers (WHG). Compared to Funnelbeaker and Corded Ware individuals, Pitted Ware samples show minimal Early European Farmer (EEF) and little to no Steppe-related ancestry, even during periods of close geographic coexistence.

Genetic analyses reveal continuity between the Pitted Ware and earlier Scandinavian Mesolithic populations, suggesting that the culture represents a local persistence of hunter-gatherer groups rather than a population replacement. Y-chromosome haplogroups identified in Pitted Ware individuals are predominantly I2, which is characteristic of Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers, while mitochondrial haplogroups commonly include U5 and U4.

By the Late Neolithic, with the spread of Corded Ware populations into Scandinavia after approximately 2500 BC, Pitted Ware groups were gradually absorbed. Although their overall genetic contribution to later northern European populations appears limited, they likely contributed small but measurable amounts of hunter-gatherer ancestry to subsequent Scandinavian populations.<ref name=":1">Skoglund et al. (2014) — Genomic study on Scandinavian foragers and farmers

📄 Genomic diversity and admixture differs for Stone‑Age Scandinavian foragers and farmers (Science article abstract/DOI)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24762536/</ref><ref name=":2">Price, Klassen & Sjögren (2021) — Isotopic and archaeological evidence for Pitted Ware spread

📄 Pitted Ware culture: Isotopic evidence for contact between Sweden and Denmark (Journal of Anthropological Archaeology)https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278416520302270?via%3Dihub</ref>

== '''Migrations and Relations to Later Peoples''' ==
The Pitted Ware Culture does not appear to have been the result of large-scale migration but rather developed in situ from earlier hunter-gatherer populations. While they maintained extensive contact and exchange with neighboring cultures—particularly Funnelbeaker farmers—their genetic profile suggests limited intermarriage for much of their existence.

The decline of the Pitted Ware Culture coincides with the expansion of Corded Ware groups into Scandinavia.

Archaeological and genetic evidence indicates a process of gradual cultural and demographic assimilation, rather than abrupt displacement. Elements of Pitted Ware material culture and subsistence strategies may have influenced later populations, even as their distinct identity faded.<ref name=":0" />

=== '''Origins''' ===
The Pitted Ware Culture is believed to have emerged from local Mesolithic hunter-gatherer traditions in Scandinavia around 3300 BC. Its development is often interpreted as a cultural response to the spread of agriculture, with coastal communities intensifying marine subsistence rather than adopting farming practices.

The geographic distribution of Pitted Ware sites closely follows coastlines, islands, and archipelagos, reinforcing their maritime orientation. Although influenced by neighboring cultures through trade and limited cultural exchange—particularly the Funnelbeaker culture—the Pitted Ware maintained a distinct cultural and biological identity throughout most of their existence.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
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Pitted Ware Culture

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== '''Culture''' ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
The Pitted Ware Culture (PWC) was a Middle Neolithic hunter-gatherer culture that existed primarily in southern Scandinavia, including Sweden, Denmark, coastal Norway, and the Baltic islands, from approximately 3300 to 2300 BC. Despite existing alongside contemporary farming cultures—most notably the Funnelbeaker (TRB) and later the Corded Ware—the Pitted Ware people maintained a predominantly foraging-based maritime lifestyle.

Settlements were typically located along coasts, islands, and waterways, indicating a strong reliance on the sea. Archaeological evidence suggests relatively stable, semi-sedentary communities, with repeated occupation of the same sites over long periods. Dwellings were likely seasonal or lightly constructed, leaving limited structural remains. Their economy and daily life were strongly adapted to coastal environments, and they made extensive use of boats for fishing, sealing, and transport. <ref name=":0">Coutinho et al. (2020) — Genetic continuity despite cultural contact

📄 The Neolithic Pitted Ware culture foragers were culturally but not genetically influenced by Battle Axe herders (American Journal of Physical Anthropology)</ref>

=== Diet ===
The Pitted Ware diet was heavily focused on marine resources, setting them apart from neighboring agricultural societies. Zooarchaeological remains show a strong reliance on seal meat, particularly harp and ringed seals, which formed a dietary staple. Fish, including cod and herring, were also widely consumed, along with sea birds and shellfish. Terrestrial game such as elk and deer supplemented the diet, though to a lesser extent.

Plant foods were likely gathered seasonally, but there is little evidence for systematic agriculture. Unlike the Funnelbeaker culture, the Pitted Ware show minimal reliance on domesticated crops or livestock. Isotopic analysis of human remains consistently indicates a marine-heavy protein intake, confirming their hunter-gatherer subsistence strategy even in regions where farming was well established.<ref>Fornander, Eriksson & Lidén (2008) — Stable isotope analysis of Pitted Ware diet

📄 Wild at heart: Pitted Ware identity and diet through stable isotopes (Journal of Anthropological Archaeology)</ref>

=== '''Language''' ===
The language spoken by the Pitted Ware people is unknown and cannot be directly reconstructed. Given their chronological position prior to or contemporary with early Indo-European expansions in northern Europe, they are generally considered pre–Indo-European speakers. Some scholars suggest they may have spoken languages related to earlier Mesolithic hunter-gatherer traditions of northern Europe, though no definitive linguistic evidence survives.

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
Burial practices within the Pitted Ware Culture were variable but typically involved flat graves rather than large monuments. Individuals were often buried in a supine position, sometimes sprinkled with red ocher, a practice inherited from earlier Mesolithic traditions. Graves were usually shallow and located near settlements, occasionally forming small cemeteries.

Grave goods frequently included ceramic vessels, stone tools, bone implements, and ornaments made from animal teeth or bone. The pottery for which the culture is named is characterized by distinctive pitted or stamped decoration, often arranged in geometric patterns. Unlike contemporary farming cultures, weapons and prestige items are relatively rare, suggesting a more egalitarian social structure.

== '''Genetics''' ==
Ancient DNA studies indicate that the Pitted Ware people were genetically distinct from neighboring Neolithic farming populations and retained a strong ancestry from western European hunter-gatherers (WHG). Compared to Funnelbeaker and Corded Ware individuals, Pitted Ware samples show minimal Early European Farmer (EEF) and little to no Steppe-related ancestry, even during periods of close geographic coexistence.

Genetic analyses reveal continuity between the Pitted Ware and earlier Scandinavian Mesolithic populations, suggesting that the culture represents a local persistence of hunter-gatherer groups rather than a population replacement. Y-chromosome haplogroups identified in Pitted Ware individuals are predominantly I2, which is characteristic of Mesolithic European hunter-gatherers, while mitochondrial haplogroups commonly include U5 and U4.

By the Late Neolithic, with the spread of Corded Ware populations into Scandinavia after approximately 2500 BC, Pitted Ware groups were gradually absorbed. Although their overall genetic contribution to later northern European populations appears limited, they likely contributed small but measurable amounts of hunter-gatherer ancestry to subsequent Scandinavian populations.<ref name=":1">Skoglund et al. (2014) — Genomic study on Scandinavian foragers and farmers

📄 Genomic diversity and admixture differs for Stone‑Age Scandinavian foragers and farmers (Science article abstract/DOI)</ref><ref name=":2">Price, Klassen & Sjögren (2021) — Isotopic and archaeological evidence for Pitted Ware spread

📄 Pitted Ware culture: Isotopic evidence for contact between Sweden and Denmark (Journal of Anthropological Archaeology)</ref>

== '''Migrations and Relations to Later Peoples''' ==
The Pitted Ware Culture does not appear to have been the result of large-scale migration but rather developed in situ from earlier hunter-gatherer populations. While they maintained extensive contact and exchange with neighboring cultures—particularly Funnelbeaker farmers—their genetic profile suggests limited intermarriage for much of their existence.

The decline of the Pitted Ware Culture coincides with the expansion of Corded Ware groups into Scandinavia.

Archaeological and genetic evidence indicates a process of gradual cultural and demographic assimilation, rather than abrupt displacement. Elements of Pitted Ware material culture and subsistence strategies may have influenced later populations, even as their distinct identity faded.<ref name=":0" />

=== '''Origins''' ===
The Pitted Ware Culture is believed to have emerged from local Mesolithic hunter-gatherer traditions in Scandinavia around 3300 BC. Its development is often interpreted as a cultural response to the spread of agriculture, with coastal communities intensifying marine subsistence rather than adopting farming practices.

The geographic distribution of Pitted Ware sites closely follows coastlines, islands, and archipelagos, reinforcing their maritime orientation. Although influenced by neighboring cultures through trade and limited cultural exchange—particularly the Funnelbeaker culture—the Pitted Ware maintained a distinct cultural and biological identity throughout most of their existence.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
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Funnel Beaker Culture

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== Origins ==
The Funnel Beaker People were a people who lived on the North European Plains from 4000 to 2800 BC. They are also commonly known by their German name Trichterbecher (TRB). They were the first farmers of Europe. Whether this is because they adopted farming through interactions with neighbors or moved into the area and replaced the local hunter gatherers is debated. They were eventually absorbed by the Corded Ware Culture.<ref name=":0">https://www.thoughtco.com/funnel-beaker-culture-170938</ref>

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
The Funnel Beaker People were farmers, growing Emmer and Einkorn wheat, barley, spelt, flax peas, and poppies. They raised cattle sheep, goats, and hogs. The earliest evidence for the use of the plow, as well as the wheel, in Europe is associated with the Funnel Beaker People. They also made woolen textiles. Their settlements were often built around burials, the landscape surrounding them was usually divided into fields. The houses were built of wooden poles buried in the ground, hatched in straw, and with waddle and daub walls. Their settlements became larger and more elaborate later in the period. They made pots with narrow funnel shaped necks, this is the source of the name they are known by. They also made two and four handled amphorae, as well as plates and bowls.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">https://www.eupedia.com/genetics/funnelbeaker_culture.shtml</ref><ref name=":2">https://youtu.be/iJYvhf0VVi0?si=xSuPIKTMffi9a97c</ref>

=== Diet ===
They ate beef, mutton, and pork as well as wild game. Livestock seems to have been of greater importance earlier in the period but by 3600 grains seem to have gained more importance. They also made and consumed dairy products. <ref name=":1" />

== Burial customs ==
The Funnel Beaker People originally left singular flat graves usually with no mounds. But by 3600 they had begun building, megalithic, graves, mostly dolmens and passage graves. They also practice bog offering. There was often only a partial body present in the grave. Grave goods include included flint tools, (arrowheads, scrapers and daggers) Stone hammer axes and clubs, as well as Amber beads and pendants. Graves were often central to a village and both villages and graves became more elaborate later in the period. The highest concentration of Funnel Beaker Culture graves are in Gelderland Holland, Overijessel Holland, Luneberge Heath Lower Saxony, Haldensleben Saxony-Anhalt and the Isle of Rügen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. <ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

Single Grave Culture

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== Origins ==
[[File:Region.jpg|thumb|Homeland of single gave culture]]
The Single Grave Culture were a subgroup of the Corded Ware Culture, sharing many similarities with them. They lived in Denmark, Northern Germany, and Northern Holland, from 2800 to 2200 BC. They live together with the Pitted Ware Culture and the [[Funnel Beaker Culture]] for sometime before replacing them . They were first named by Andres Peter Madsen, a Danish archaeologist, in the late 1800s.<ref name=":0">https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Single-Grave</ref><ref name=":1">https://indo-european.info/game-clans-clash-chiefs.pdf#page166 pg 209-16,247-50. </ref>

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
They lived much the same as their Corded Ware cousins in small, possibly seminomadic villages. They raised cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, and horses, used wagons and draft animals, and also cultivated crops(mainly barley, but also wheat). They made pottery that was similar to the corded wear pots with an emphasis on drinking vessels. Some of their pots had a protruding base or “ foot”. These were found mostly in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, later beakers became more straight walled sometimes with vertical decorations, as opposed to the more normal corded wear decorations. At this time, flint daggers seem to have replaced copper daggers partially. Copper was utilized, but less commonly than before. There was also a trade in Stone axes from Selesia, amber from the Baltic region, and flint from France and Italy.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

=== Diet ===
Their diet consisted of meat from the livestock they raised, as well as wild game. Fish was a part of their diet as well as dairy products. Grain was grown and consumed, but it seems to have been less important to them than to their predecessors. Alcohol was also brewed and consumed, as shown by residue found in drinking vessels, uncovered in burials.<ref name=":1" />

=== Burial customs ===
[[File:Grave diagram.jpg|thumb|Diagram of burials]]
Their burial customs are the main defining factor setting them apart from other cultures, as well as the origin of the name given to them by archaeologists. Burials are often of a single person laid in a single flat grave, though in some places graves are found in layers three deep. (mostly in Jutland). These layers are called the undergrave, the groundgrave, and the abovegrave layers.
[[File:Single grave grave goods.jpg|thumb|Grave goods. ]]
The undergrave is dug below the ground level, the groundgrave is laid out at the ground level and covered with a mound, and the abovegrave is laid above the previous layer and also covered with a mound. Man are generally buried laying on thier right side with their heads toward the west, while women are buried on their left side with their heads to the east, both are looking southwards. The people buried are sometimes buried in coffins made of split boards. Men are often buried with battleaxes, flint, tools, and large amber discs. While women are buried with Amber jewelry. Pottery and drinking vessels are often found with both genders. Barrows were often enlarged when a person was added to a grave, and some barrows have children buried on the edges and may be surrounded by a circle of wooden posts.<ref name=":0" />

Single Grave Culture

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== Origins ==
[[File:Region.jpg|thumb|Homeland of single gave culture]]
The Single Grave Culture were a subgroup of the Corded Ware Culture, sharing many similarities with them. They lived in Denmark, Northern Germany, and Northern Holland, from 2800 to 2200 BC. They live together with the Pitted Ware Culture and the Funnel Beaker Culture for sometime before replacing them . They were first named by Andres Peter Madsen, a Danish archaeologist, in the late 1800s.<ref name=":0">https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Single-Grave</ref><ref name=":1">https://indo-european.info/game-clans-clash-chiefs.pdf#page166 pg 209-16,247-50. </ref>

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
They lived much the same as their Corded Ware cousins in small, possibly seminomadic villages. They raised cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, and horses, used wagons and draft animals, and also cultivated crops(mainly barley, but also wheat). They made pottery that was similar to the corded wear pots with an emphasis on drinking vessels. Some of their pots had a protruding base or “ foot”. These were found mostly in Scandinavia and Northern Germany, later beakers became more straight walled sometimes with vertical decorations, as opposed to the more normal corded wear decorations. At this time, flint daggers seem to have replaced copper daggers partially. Copper was utilized, but less commonly than before. There was also a trade in Stone axes from Selesia, amber from the Baltic region, and flint from France and Italy.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

=== Diet ===
Their diet consisted of meat from the livestock they raised, as well as wild game. Fish was a part of their diet as well as dairy products. Grain was grown and consumed, but it seems to have been less important to them than to their predecessors. Alcohol was also brewed and consumed, as shown by residue found in drinking vessels, uncovered in burials.<ref name=":1" />

=== Burial customs ===
[[File:Grave diagram.jpg|thumb|Diagram of burials]]
Their burial customs are the main defining factor setting them apart from other cultures, as well as the origin of the name given to them by archaeologists. Burials are often of a single person laid in a single flat grave, though in some places graves are found in layers three deep. (mostly in Jutland). These layers are called the undergrave, the groundgrave, and the abovegrave layers.
[[File:Single grave grave goods.jpg|thumb|Grave goods. ]]
The undergrave is dug below the ground level, the groundgrave is laid out at the ground level and covered with a mound, and the abovegrave is laid above the previous layer and also covered with a mound. Man are generally buried laying on thier right side with their heads toward the west, while women are buried on their left side with their heads to the east, both are looking southwards. The people buried are sometimes buried in coffins made of split boards. Men are often buried with battleaxes, flint, tools, and large amber discs. While women are buried with Amber jewelry. Pottery and drinking vessels are often found with both genders. Barrows were often enlarged when a person was added to a grave, and some barrows have children buried on the edges and may be surrounded by a circle of wooden posts.<ref name=":0" />

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The Yamnaya Culture

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The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.<ref name=":0">The Horse the Wheel and Language, how Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes shaped the Modern World. David W. Anthony</ref><ref name=":1">Anthromedia. Yamnaya Pastoralists: Ancestors of Indo Europeans<nowiki/>https://youtu.be/xA2WyIGXPIw?si=_Ff6Oy-VcPWYLY7R</ref>

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
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The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.<ref name=":0" />

=== '''Diet''' ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">Dan Davis History. The Yamnaya Culture | Bronze age Steppe Herders https://youtu.be/GalZLoTeU74?si=S6UCYHQIJSwuBtmY</ref>

=== '''Language''' ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).<ref name=":1" />

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.
[[File:Yamnaya burial .jpg|thumb]]
Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

== Migrations ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and [[Corded Ware]] Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup being introduced into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

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Battle Axe Culture

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The Battle Axe Culture (also known as as the Boat Axe Culture) was a subgroup of the Corded Ware Culture, they lived in Scandinavia, mostly in North Central Sweden, and southern Norway, and the eastern side of the Baltic Sea, mostly Southwestern Finland. They are a result of Indo European migrations into Scandinavia(Yamnaya or Pre Yamnaya peoples) mixing with the local Funnel Beaker Culture, and Pitted Ware Culture. Individuals dated to earlier in the time period generally have a greater admixture of Yamnaya DNA, while those from a later time period have less. This is generally thought to indicate a gradual assimilation of the different cultures.<ref name=":0">Dan Davis History, The Stone Axe Of Neolithic Europe<nowiki/>https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=dRyOj7hoV2BdUZmN</ref><ref name=":1">The Study Of Antiquity and the Middle Age, The Battle Axe Culture and Indo European Migrations https://youtu.be/B1uZh7J0M3k?si=3dmt7at66hbeff9O</ref><ref name=":4">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1528</ref>

== '''Culture''' ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
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Settlements of the Battle Axe People are generally found inland , consisting of small semi- permanent towns usually associated with a graveyard, sometimes surrounding a graveyard. There is evidence of roads and wagons, as well as short term camps, which leads researchers to conclude that they were seminomadic moving to new territory when pasture or crop ground had become depleted. Herding seems to have been preferred to farming, the evidence of crops (wheat and small grains, as well as peas and beans.) are present in the archaeological record, though they appear less frequently than before the Battle Axe settlement. Cattle, sheep, horses, hogs, and goats were all raised. There is evidence for a trade in pots and Amber across the Baltic Sea, and rock carvings from this time show ships, indicating boat building and seafaring.<ref name=":2">https://indo-european.info/game-clans-clash-chiefs.pdf</ref>

=== '''Diet''' ===
Beef, mutton, pork, and horse as well as wild game like reindeer and elk were eaten. Milk fat residues have been found in pots, indicating dairy was eaten, and cheese was probably eaten as well. Small grains and pulses were also eaten.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

=== '''Language''' ===
They spoke an Indo European dialect, most likely an early form of the modern Nordic languages. They are the people who brought Indo European language to Scandinavia.<ref name=":3">https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-science/battle-axe-culture-0013895</ref>

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They dug small, flat graves, in which one person was buried, usually without a barrow raised above it. Though in some instances, the megalithic graves of the Funnel Beaker People were utilized. Burials were usually laid North to South, women were laid on their right side, men on their left side. Though some burials were laid Northeast to Southwest. Gravegoods often include stone chisels, flint axes and tools, Amber beads, antler weapons, animal bones.(wildlife and cattle.) pottery, and of course, the axes for which they are named. Dogs also appear in the graves fairly often while horses and wagons appear less often, leading researchers to speculate that riding and wagons had become less important and dogs had gained significance.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

=== '''Migrations and Relationships to Modern Peoples''' ===
The Battle Axe people are the ancestors of the modern Nordic people, as well as the modern Nordic languages. The most common male haplogroup among them was the R1 a haplogroup, as a result of their mixing with the local Hunter Gatherers. Genetically they were a mix of Pontic Caspian Steppe Herders, European Hunter Gatherers, and Early Neolithic Farmers . The Pontic Caspian Steppe HerderDNA is most likely of Yamnaya descent (through the Corded Ware People.). The European Hunter Gatherer and Early Neolithic Farmer DNA is from the Funnel Beaker and Pitted Ware Cultures. They may also be the originators of the hammer wielding god archetype (Thor for the Nordics, Perun for the Slavs ,Ukko for the Finns) because of the apparent ritualistic/religious significance of the battle ax, as indicated by their presence in the burials of the time.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" />

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Corded Ware

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[[File:Corded Ware Map.png|thumb]]
The Corded Ware were a late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age people who lived in the land between the Rhine and Volga Rivers, from 3000-2300 BC. They were fairly genetically diverse compared to other people‘s of their time. Showing Yamnaya and possible pre-Yamnaya influence, as well as Neolithic European Farmer admixture. Their genetic record seems to indicate an integration of neolithic farmer and steppe herder DNA.<ref name=":0">Dan Davis History. The Stone Battle Axe of Neolithic Europe https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=Chh7zOeShZDkYx1Z</ref><ref name=":1">Dan Davis History. The Corded Ware Culture | Prehistoric Europe Documentary (3000-2500) https://youtu.be/ecmeQT7R7rk?si=l0znc5C7_LJszaBq</ref>

== Culture ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
The Corded Ware are so named for the impressions, resembling cords or rope, found on the pottery associated with them in the archaeological record. Evidence for settlements and permanent buildings is not well attested to, but is present in the record. This has led to some debate as to whether they were nomadic or sedentary. They raised cattle and sheep, as well as planted Emmer wheat, Common wheat and Barley. They used wagons, probably pulled by oxen, and may have used the wool from the sheep they raised to make textiles of some kind. Because they were spread over such a large area and were the result of various peoples intermarrying there is some cultural variation, across time and the area they inhabited. Scientists have categorized several sub groups of the Corded Ware, two of the better known are the Single Grave Culture, and the Battle Axe Culture.

The [[Single Grave Culture]], is so named because of the prevalence of individually buried people attributed to them. They lived in Scandinavia Northern Germany, and the Low Countries.

The [[Battle Axe Culture]], so named because of the prevalence of polished flint axes(as well as bronze) found in their graves, often these are both shaped. They lived mainly in Southern Scandinavia, Norway, and Finland.<ref name=":2">The Horse the Wheel and Language, how Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes shaped the Modern World. David W. Anthony </ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

=== '''Diet''' ===
Meat (beef, mutton, and wild game) as well as grains(Common, and Emmer wheat, and Barley) were both consumed, though the prevalence of grains is debated, due to their scarcity in the archaeological record. Dairy products were also eaten, and alcohol is believed to have been a part of the diet, based on the prevalence of drinking vessels and linguistic studies.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />

=== '''Language''' ===
They spoke a dialect of the [[Proto-Indo European language]], and are most likely the fathers of [[Proto-Germanic]], as well as [[Proto-Slavic – Baltic]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">Celtic History Decoded. The Genetic Melting Pot of Europe… Corded Ware Culture DNA Revealed https://youtu.be/cNMWEXzHfDA?si=fU8GYOWlUW4JlALE</ref><ref name=":1" />

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
[[File:Corded Ware Burial.jpg|thumb|Burial including gravegoods]]
The dead were generally buried singularly in low flat Graves, sometimes with a low mound raise over it sometimes without. Men were generally buried on their right side with their head facing West and their face to the South with their knees bent. Women were usually buried on their left side with their head facing East And their face to the South. Though in some Polish graves, the bodies were buried with their heads facing South, women on their right side, looking East, men on their left side, looking West. Men were usually buried with axes laid near their face and a knife at their hip, Occasionally they were buried with pottery behind their head (in which case an axe is usually not present). Wagons, animals, beakers, flint blades, amber beads, copper tools, and shell ornaments are also found as grave goods.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />

== Migrations and Relations to Later People ==
The Corded Ware are ancestral to all Northern Europeans to a greater or lesser extent, in the East the Finns, Estonians, and North Russians carry the highest percentage of Corded Ware admixture. In the West it is the Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Kursk. And in the North, it is the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Germans. The people of the British Isles also have a strong connection to the Corded Ware, with a large and relatively rapid migration taking place sometime around 2500 BC, which wiped out most of the pre-existing people of the Megalithic cCulture. The men of the Corded Ware were mostly R1B and R1A, and Corded Ware people also had some of the highest prevalence of the gene RS 4988235, ( the gene which allows the digestion of milk into adulthood), at the time.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

== References ==

File:Corded Ware Burial.jpg

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CWC Burial

File:Corded Ware Map.png

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Map showing Corded Ware Homelands

Battle Axe Culture

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The Battle Axe Culture (also known as as the Boat Axe Culture) was a subgroup of the Corded Ware Culture, they lived in Scandinavia, mostly in North Central Sweden, and southern Norway, and the eastern side of the Baltic Sea, mostly Southwestern Finland. They are a result of Indo European migrations into Scandinavia(Yamnaya or Pre Yamnaya peoples) mixing with the local Funnel Beaker Culture, and Pitted Ware Culture. Individuals dated to earlier in the time period generally have a greater admixture of Yamnaya DNA, while those from a later time period have less. This is generally thought to indicate a gradual assimilation of the different cultures.<ref name=":0">Dan Davis History, The Stone Axe Of Neolithic Europe<nowiki/>https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=dRyOj7hoV2BdUZmN</ref><ref name=":1">The Study Of Antiquity and the Middle Age, The Battle Axe Culture and Indo European Migrations https://youtu.be/B1uZh7J0M3k?si=3dmt7at66hbeff9O</ref><ref name=":4">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1528</ref>

== '''Culture''' ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
Settlements of the Battle Axe People are generally found inland , consisting of small semi- permanent towns usually associated with a graveyard, sometimes surrounding a graveyard. There is evidence of roads and wagons, as well as short term camps, which leads researchers to conclude that they were seminomadic moving to new territory when pasture or crop ground had become depleted. Herding seems to have been preferred to farming, the evidence of crops (wheat and small grains, as well as peas and beans.) are present in the archaeological record, though they appear less frequently than before the Battle Axe settlement. Cattle, sheep, horses, hogs, and goats were all raised. There is evidence for a trade in pots and Amber across the Baltic Sea, and rock carvings from this time show ships, indicating boat building and seafaring.<ref name=":2">https://indo-european.info/game-clans-clash-chiefs.pdf</ref>

=== '''Diet''' ===
Beef, mutton, pork, and horse as well as wild game like reindeer and elk were eaten. Milk fat residues have been found in pots, indicating dairy was eaten, and cheese was probably eaten as well. Small grains and pulses were also eaten.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

=== '''Language''' ===
They spoke an Indo European dialect, most likely an early form of the modern Nordic languages. They are the people who brought Indo European language to Scandinavia.<ref name=":3">https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-science/battle-axe-culture-0013895</ref>

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They dug small, flat graves, in which one person was buried, usually without a barrow raised above it. Though in some instances, the megalithic graves of the Funnel Beaker People were utilized. Burials were usually laid North to South, women were laid on their right side, men on their left side. Though some burials were laid Northeast to Southwest. Gravegoods often include stone chisels, flint axes and tools, Amber beads, antler weapons, animal bones.(wildlife and cattle.) pottery, and of course, the axes for which they are named. Dogs also appear in the graves fairly often while horses and wagons appear less often, leading researchers to speculate that riding and wagons had become less important and dogs had gained significance.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

=== '''Migrations and Relationships to Modern Peoples''' ===
The Battle Axe people are the ancestors of the modern Nordic people, as well as the modern Nordic languages. The most common male haplogroup among them was the R1 a haplogroup, as a result of their mixing with the local Hunter Gatherers. Genetically they were a mix of Pontic Caspian Steppe Herders, European Hunter Gatherers, and Early Neolithic Farmers . The Pontic Caspian Steppe HerderDNA is most likely of Yamnaya descent (through the Corded Ware People.). The European Hunter Gatherer and Early Neolithic Farmer DNA is from the Funnel Beaker and Pitted Ware Cultures. They may also be the originators of the hammer wielding god archetype (Thor for the Nordics, Perun for the Slavs ,Ukko for the Finns) because of the apparent ritualistic/religious significance of the battle ax, as indicated by their presence in the burials of the time.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" />

The Yamnaya Culture

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The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.<ref name=":0">The Horse the Wheel and Language, how Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes shaped the Modern World. David W. Anthony</ref><ref name=":1">Anthromedia. Yamnaya Pastoralists: Ancestors of Indo Europeans<nowiki/>https://youtu.be/xA2WyIGXPIw?si=_Ff6Oy-VcPWYLY7R</ref>

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.<ref name=":0" />

=== '''Diet''' ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">Dan Davis History. The Yamnaya Culture | Bronze age Steppe Herders https://youtu.be/GalZLoTeU74?si=S6UCYHQIJSwuBtmY</ref>

=== '''Language''' ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).<ref name=":1" />

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

== Migrations ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and [[Corded Ware]] Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup being introduced into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

Battle Axe Culture

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The Battle Axe Culture (also known as as the Boat Axe Culture) was a subgroup of the Corded Ware Culture, they lived in Scandinavia, mostly in North Central Sweden, and southern Norway, and the eastern side of the Baltic Sea, mostly Southwestern Finland. They are a result of Indo European migrations into Scandinavia(Yamnaya or Pre Yamnaya peoples) mixing with the local Funnel Beaker Culture, and Pitted Ware Culture. Individuals dated to earlier in the time period generally have a greater admixture of Yamnaya DNA, while those from a later time period have less. This is generally thought to indicate a gradual assimilation of the different cultures.<ref name=":0">Dan Davis History, The Stone Axe Of Neolithic Europe<nowiki/>https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=dRyOj7hoV2BdUZmN</ref><ref name=":1">The Study Of Antiquity and the Middle Age, The Battle Axe Culture and Indo European Migrations https://youtu.be/B1uZh7J0M3k?si=3dmt7at66hbeff9O</ref><ref name=":4">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1528</ref>

== '''Culture''' ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
Settlements of the Battle Axe People are generally found inland , consisting of small semi- permanent towns usually associated with a graveyard, sometimes surrounding a graveyard. There is evidence of roads and wagons, as well as short term camps, which leads researchers to conclude that they were seminomadic moving to new territory when pasture or crop ground had become depleted. Herding seems to have been preferred to farming, the evidence of crops (wheat and small grains, as well as peas and beans.) are present in the archaeological record, though they appear less frequently than before the B attle Axe settlement. Cattle, sheep, horses, hogs, and goats were all raised. There is evidence for a trade in pots and Amber across the Baltic Sea, and rock carvings from this time show ships, indicating boat building and seafaring.<ref name=":2">https://indo-european.info/game-clans-clash-chiefs.pdf</ref>

=== '''Diet''' ===
Beef, mutton, pork, and horse as well as wild game like reindeer and elk were eaten. Milk fat residues have been found in pots, indicating dairy was eaten, and cheese was probably eaten as well. Small grains and pulses were also eaten.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

=== '''Language''' ===
They spoke an Indo European dialect, most likely an early form of the modern Nordic languages. They are the people who brought Indo European language to Scandinavia.<ref name=":3">https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-science/battle-axe-culture-0013895</ref>

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They dug small, flat graves, in which one person was buried, usually without a barrow raised above it. Though in some instances, the megalithic graves of the Funnel Beaker People were utilized. Burials were usually laid North to South, women were laid on their right side, men on their left side. Though some burials were laid Northeast to Southwest. Gravegoods often include stone chisels, flint axes and tools, Amber beads, antler weapons, animal bones.(wildlife and cattle.) pottery, and of course, the axes for which they are named. Dogs also appear in the graves fairly often while horses and wagons appear less often, leading researchers to speculate that riding and wagons had become less important and dogs had gained significance.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

=== '''Migrations and Relationships to Modern Peoples''' ===
The Battle Axe people are the ancestors of the modern Nordic people, as well as the modern Nordic languages. The most common male haplogroup among them was the R1 a haplogroup, as a result of their mixing with the local Hunter Gatherers. Genetically they were a mix of Pontic Caspian Steppe Herders, European Hunter Gatherers, and Early Neolithic Farmers . The Pontic Caspian Steppe HerderDNA is most likely of Yamnaya descent (through the Corded Ware People.). The European Hunter Gatherer and Early Neolithic Farmer DNA is from the Funnel Beaker and Pitted Ware Cultures. They may also be the originators of the hammer wielding god archetype (Thor for the Nordics, Perun for the Slavs ,Ukko for the Finns) because of the apparent ritualistic/religious significance of the battle ax, as indicated by their presence in the burials of the time.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" />

Battle Axe Culture

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MJDAvechristusrex: Minor structural changes

The Battle Axe Culture (also known as as the Boat Axe Culture) was a subgroup of the Corded Ware Culture, they lived in Scandinavia, mostly in North Central Sweden, and southern Norway, and the eastern side of the Baltic Sea, mostly Southwestern Finland. They are a result of Indo European migrations into Scandinavia(Yamnaya or Pre Yamnaya peoples) mixing with the local Funnel Beaker Culture, and Pitted Ware Culture. Individuals dated to earlier in the time period generally have a greater admixture of Yamnaya DNA, while those from a later time period have less. This is generally thought to indicate a gradual assimilation of the different cultures.<ref name=":0">Dan Davis History, The Stone Axe Of Neolithic Europe<nowiki/>https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=dRyOj7hoV2BdUZmN</ref><ref name=":1">The Study Of Antiquity and the Middle Age, The Battle Axe Culture and Indo European Migrations https://youtu.be/B1uZh7J0M3k?si=3dmt7at66hbeff9O</ref><ref>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1528</ref>

== '''Culture''' ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
Settlements of the Battle Axe People are generally found inland , consisting of small semi- permanent towns usually associated with a graveyard, sometimes surrounding a graveyard. There is evidence of roads and wagons, as well as short term camps, which leads researchers to conclude that they were seminomadic moving to new territory when pasture or crop ground had become depleted. Herding seems to have been preferred to farming, the evidence of crops (wheat and small grains, as well as peas and beans.) are present in the archaeological record, though they appear less frequently than before the B attle Axe settlement. Cattle, sheep, horses, hogs, and goats were all raised. There is evidence for a trade in pots and Amber across the Baltic Sea, and rock carvings from this time show ships, indicating boat building and seafaring.<ref name=":2">https://indo-european.info/game-clans-clash-chiefs.pdf</ref>

=== '''Diet''' ===
Beef, mutton, pork, and horse as well as wild game like reindeer and elk were eaten. Milk fat residues have been found in pots, indicating dairy was eaten, and cheese was probably eaten as well. Small grains and pulses were also eaten.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

=== '''Language''' ===
They spoke an Indo European dialect, most likely an early form of the modern Nordic languages. They are the people who brought Indo European language to Scandinavia.<ref name=":3">https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-science/battle-axe-culture-0013895</ref>

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They dug small, flat graves, in which one person was buried, usually without a barrow raised above it. Though in some instances, the megalithic graves of the Funnel Beaker People were utilized. Burials were usually laid North to South, women were laid on their right side, men on their left side. Though some burials were laid Northeast to Southwest. Gravegoods often include stone chisels, flint axes and tools, Amber beads, antler weapons, animal bones.(wildlife and cattle.) pottery, and of course, the axes for which they are named. Dogs also appear in the graves fairly often while horses and wagons appear less often, leading researchers to speculate that riding and wagons had become less important and dogs had gained significance.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

=== '''Migrations and Relationships to Modern Peoples''' ===
The Battle Axe people are the ancestors of the modern Nordic people, as well as the modern Nordic languages. The most common male haplogroup among them was the R1 a haplogroup, as a result of their mixing with the local Hunter Gatherers. Genetically they were a mix of Pontic Caspian Steppe Herders, European Hunter Gatherers, and Early Neolithic Farmers . The Pontic Caspian Steppe HerderDNA is most likely of Yamnaya descent (through the Corded Ware People.). The European Hunter Gatherer and Early Neolithic Farmer DNA is from the Funnel Beaker and Pitted Ware Cultures. They may also be the originators of the hammer wielding god archetype (Thor for the Nordics, Perun for the Slavs ,Ukko for the Finns) because of the apparent ritualistic/religious significance of the battle ax, as indicated by their presence in the burials of the time.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" />

Corded Ware

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The Corded Ware were a late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age people who lived in the land between the Rhine and Volga Rivers, from 3000-2300 BC. They were fairly genetically diverse compared to other people‘s of their time. Showing Yamnaya and possible pre-Yamnaya influence, as well as Neolithic European Farmer admixture. Their genetic record seems to indicate an integration of neolithic farmer and steppe herder DNA.<ref name=":0">Dan Davis History. The Stone Battle Axe of Neolithic Europe https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=Chh7zOeShZDkYx1Z</ref><ref name=":1">Dan Davis History. The Corded Ware Culture | Prehistoric Europe Documentary (3000-2500) https://youtu.be/ecmeQT7R7rk?si=l0znc5C7_LJszaBq</ref>

== Culture ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
The Corded Ware are so named for the impressions, resembling cords or rope, found on the pottery associated with them in the archaeological record. Evidence for settlements and permanent buildings is not well attested to, but is present in the record. This has led to some debate as to whether they were nomadic or sedentary. They raised cattle and sheep, as well as planted Emmer wheat, Common wheat and Barley. They used wagons, probably pulled by oxen, and may have used the wool from the sheep they raised to make textiles of some kind. Because they were spread over such a large area and were the result of various peoples intermarrying there is some cultural variation, across time and the area they inhabited. Scientists have categorized several sub groups of the Corded Ware, two of the better known are the Single Grave Culture, and the Battle Axe Culture.

The [[Single Grave Culture]], is so named because of the prevalence of individually buried people attributed to them. They lived in Scandinavia Northern Germany, and the Low Countries.

The [[Battle Axe Culture]], so named because of the prevalence of polished flint axes(as well as bronze) found in their graves, often these are both shaped. They lived mainly in Southern Scandinavia, Norway, and Finland.<ref name=":2">The Horse the Wheel and Language, how Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes shaped the Modern World. David W. Anthony </ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

=== '''Diet''' ===
Meat (beef, mutton, and wild game) as well as grains(Common, and Emmer wheat, and Barley) were both consumed, though the prevalence of grains is debated, due to their scarcity in the archaeological record. Dairy products were also eaten, and alcohol is believed to have been a part of the diet, based on the prevalence of drinking vessels and linguistic studies.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />

=== '''Language''' ===
They spoke a dialect of the [[Proto-Indo European language]], and are most likely the fathers of [[Proto-Germanic]], as well as [[Proto-Slavic – Baltic]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">Celtic History Decoded. The Genetic Melting Pot of Europe… Corded Ware Culture DNA Revealed https://youtu.be/cNMWEXzHfDA?si=fU8GYOWlUW4JlALE</ref><ref name=":1" />

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
The dead were generally buried singularly in low flat Graves, sometimes with a low mound raise over it sometimes without. Men were generally buried on their right side with their head facing West and their face to the South with their knees bent. Women were usually buried on their left side with their head facing East And their face to the South. Though in some Polish graves, the bodies were buried with their heads facing South, women on their right side, looking East, men on their left side, looking West. Men were usually buried with axes laid near their face and a knife at their hip, Occasionally they were buried with pottery behind their head (in which case an axe is usually not present). Wagons, animals, beakers, flint blades, amber beads, copper tools, and shell ornaments are also found as grave goods.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" />

== Migrations and Relations to Later People ==
The Corded Ware are ancestral to all Northern Europeans to a greater or lesser extent, in the East the Finns, Estonians, and North Russians carry the highest percentage of Corded Ware admixture. In the West it is the Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Kursk. And in the North, it is the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Germans. The people of the British Isles also have a strong connection to the Corded Ware, with a large and relatively rapid migration taking place sometime around 2500 BC, which wiped out most of the pre-existing people of the Megalithic cCulture. The men of the Corded Ware were mostly R1B and R1A, and Corded Ware people also had some of the highest prevalence of the gene RS 4988235, ( the gene which allows the digestion of milk into adulthood), at the time.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

== References ==

Battle Axe Culture

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== '''Origins''' ==
The Battle Axe Culture (also known as as the Boat Axe Culture) was a subgroup of the Corded Ware Culture, they lived in Scandinavia, mostly in North Central Sweden, and southern Norway, and the eastern side of the Baltic Sea, mostly Southwestern Finland. They are a result of Indo European migrations into Scandinavia(Yamnaya or Pre Yamnaya peoples) mixing with the local Funnel Beaker Culture, and Pitted Ware Culture. Individuals dated to earlier in the time period generally have a greater admixture of Yamnaya DNA, while those from a later time period have less. This is generally thought to indicate a gradual assimilation of the different cultures.<ref>Dan Davis History, The Stone Axe Of Neolithic Europe<nowiki/>https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=dRyOj7hoV2BdUZmN</ref><ref>The Study Of Antiquity and the Middle Age, The Battle Axe Culture and Indo European Migrations https://youtu.be/B1uZh7J0M3k?si=3dmt7at66hbeff9O</ref><ref>https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1528</ref>

== '''Culture''' ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
Settlements of the Battle Axe People are generally found inland , consisting of small semi- permanent towns usually associated with a graveyard, sometimes surrounding a graveyard. There is evidence of roads and wagons, as well as short term camps, which leads researchers to conclude that they were seminomadic moving to new territory when pasture or crop ground had become depleted. Herding seems to have been preferred to farming, the evidence of crops (wheat and small grains, as well as peas and beans.) are present in the archaeological record, though they appear less frequently than before the B attle Axe settlement. Cattle, sheep, horses, hogs, and goats were all raised. There is evidence for a trade in pots and Amber across the Baltic Sea, and rock carvings from this time show ships, indicating boat building and seafaring.<ref>https://indo-european.info/game-clans-clash-chiefs.pdf</ref>

=== '''Diet''' ===
Beef, mutton, pork, and horse as well as wild game like reindeer and elk were eaten. Milk fat residues have been found in pots, indicating dairy was eaten, and cheese was probably eaten as well. Small grains and pulses were also eaten.

=== '''Language''' ===
They spoke an Indo European dialect, most likely an early form of the modern Nordic languages. They are the people who brought Indo European language to Scandinavia.<ref>https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-science/battle-axe-culture-0013895</ref>

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They dug small, flat graves, in which one person was buried, usually without a barrow raised above it. Though in some instances, the megalithic graves of the Funnel Beaker People were utilized. Burials were usually laid North to South, women were laid on their right side, men on their left side. Though some burials were laid Northeast to Southwest. Gravegoods often include stone chisels, flint axes and tools, Amber beads, antler weapons, animal bones.(wildlife and cattle.) pottery, and of course, the axes for which they are named. Dogs also appear in the graves fairly often while horses and wagons appear less often, leading researchers to speculate that riding and wagons had become less important and dogs had gained significance.

'''Migrations and Relationships to Modern Peoples'''

The Battle Axe people are the ancestors of the modern Nordic people, as well as the modern Nordic languages. The most common male haplogroup among them was the R1 a haplogroup, as a result of their mixing with the local Hunter Gatherers. Genetically they were a mix of Pontic Caspian Steppe Herders, European Hunter Gatherers, and Early Neolithic Farmers . The Pontic Caspian Steppe HerderDNA is most likely of Yamnaya descent (through the Corded Ware People.). The European Hunter Gatherer and Early Neolithic Farmer DNA is from the Funnel Beaker and Pitted Ware Cultures. They may also be the originators of the hammer wielding god archetype (Thor for the Nordics, Perun for the Slavs ,Ukko for the Finns) because of the apparent ritualistic/religious significance of the battle ax, as indicated by their presence in the burials of the time.

Battle Axe Culture

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== '''Origins''' ==
The Battle Axe Culture (also known as as the Boat Axe Culture) was a subgroup of the Corded Ware Culture, they lived in Scandinavia, mostly in North Central Sweden, and southern Norway, and the eastern side of the Baltic Sea, mostly Southwestern Finland. They are a result of Indo European migrations into Scandinavia(Yamnaya or Pre Yamnaya peoples) mixing with the local Funnel Beaker Culture, and Pitted Ware Culture. Individuals dated to earlier in the time period generally have a greater admixture of Yamnaya DNA, while those from a later time period have less. This is generally thought to indicate a gradual assimilation of the different cultures.

== '''Culture''' ==

=== '''Lifestyle''' ===
Settlements of the Battle Axe People are generally found inland , consisting of small semi- permanent towns usually associated with a graveyard, sometimes surrounding a graveyard. There is evidence of roads and wagons, as well as short term camps, which leads researchers to conclude that they were seminomadic moving to new territory when pasture or crop ground had become depleted. Herding seems to have been preferred to farming, the evidence of crops (wheat and small grains, as well as peas and beans.) are present in the archaeological record, though they appear less frequently than before the B attle Axe settlement. Cattle, sheep, horses, hogs, and goats were all raised. There is evidence for a trade in pots and Amber across the Baltic Sea, and rock carvings from this time show ships, indicating boat building and seafaring.

=== '''Diet''' ===
Beef, mutton, pork, and horse as well as wild game like reindeer and elk were eaten. Milk fat residues have been found in pots, indicating dairy was eaten, and cheese was probably eaten as well. Small grains and pulses were also eaten.

=== '''Language''' ===
They spoke an Indo European dialect, most likely an early form of the modern Nordic languages. They are the people who brought Indo European language to Scandinavia.

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They dug small, flat graves, in which one person was buried, usually without a barrow raised above it. Though in some instances, the megalithic graves of the Funnel Beaker People were utilized. Burials were usually laid North to South, women were laid on their right side, men on their left side. Though some burials were laid Northeast to Southwest. Gravegoods often include stone chisels, flint axes and tools, Amber beads, antler weapons, animal bones.(wildlife and cattle.) pottery, and of course, the axes for which they are named. Dogs also appear in the graves fairly often while horses and wagons appear less often, leading researchers to speculate that riding and wagons had become less important and dogs had gained significance.

'''Migrations and Relationships to Modern Peoples'''

The Battle Axe people are the ancestors of the modern Nordic people, as well as the modern Nordic languages. The most common male haplogroup among them was the R1 a haplogroup, as a result of their mixing with the local Hunter Gatherers. Genetically they were a mix of Pontic Caspian Steppe Herders, European Hunter Gatherers, and Early Neolithic Farmers . The Pontic Caspian Steppe HerderDNA is most likely of Yamnaya descent (through the Corded Ware People.). The European Hunter Gatherer and Early Neolithic Farmer DNA is from the Funnel Beaker and Pitted Ware Cultures. They may also be the originators of the hammer wielding god archetype (Thor for the Nordics, Perun for the Slavs ,Ukko for the Finns) because of the apparent ritualistic/religious significance of the battle ax, as indicated by their presence in the burials of the time.

Corded Ware

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== <ref>The Horse the Wheel and Language, how Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes shaped the Modern World. David W. Anthony </ref><ref>Celtic History Decoded. The Genetic Melting Pot of Europe… Corded Ware Culture DNA Revealed https://youtu.be/cNMWEXzHfDA?si=fU8GYOWlUW4JlALE</ref><ref>Dan Davis History. The Stone Battle Axe of Neolithic Europe https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=Chh7zOeShZDkYx1Z</ref><ref>Dan Davis History. The Corded Ware Culture | Prehistoric Europe Documentary (3000-2500) https://youtu.be/ecmeQT7R7rk?si=l0znc5C7_LJszaBq</ref>'''The Corded Ware Culture''' ==

=== Origin ===
The Corded Ware were a late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age people who lived in the land between the Rhine and Volga Rivers, from 3000-2300 BC. They were fairly genetically diverse compared to other people‘s of their time. Showing Yamnaya and possible pre-Yamnaya influence, as well as Neolithic European Farmer admixture. Their genetic record seems to indicate an integration of neolithic farmer and steppe herder DNA.

=== Culture ===

==== '''Lifestyle''' ====
The Corded Ware are so named for the impressions, resembling cords or rope, found on the pottery associated with them in the archaeological record. Evidence for settlements and permanent buildings is not well attested to, but is present in the record. This has led to some debate as to whether they were nomadic or sedentary. They raised cattle and sheep, as well as planted Emmer wheat, Common wheat and Barley. They used wagons, probably pulled by oxen, and may have used the wool from the sheep they raised to make textiles of some kind. Because they were spread over such a large area and were the result of various peoples intermarrying there is some cultural variation, across time and the area they inhabited. Scientists have categorized several sub groups of the Corded Ware, two of the better known are the Singl e Grave Culture, and the Battle Axe Culture.

The Single Grave Culture, is so named because of the prevalence of individually buried people attributed to them. They lived in Scandinavia Northern Germany, and the Low Countries.

The Battle Axe Culture, so named because of the prevalence of polished flint axes(as well as bronze) found in their graves, often these are both shaped. They lived mainly in Southern Scandinavia, Norway, and Finland.

==== ''' Diet''' ====
Meat (beef, mutton, and wild game) as well as grains(Common, and Emmer wheat, and Barley) were both consumed, though the prevalence of grains is debated, due to their scarcity in the archaeological record. Dairy products were also eaten, and alcohol is believed to have been a part of the diet, based on the prevalence of drinking vessels and linguistic studies.

'''Language'''

They spoke a dialect of the Proto into European language, and are most likely the fathers of Proto Germanic, as well as Proto Slavic – Baltic.

'''Burial Customs'''

The dead were generally buried singularly in low flat Graves, sometimes with a low mound raise over it sometimes without. Men were generally buried on their right side with their head facing West and their face to the South with their knees bent. Women were usually buried on their left side with their head facing East And their face to the South. Though in some Polish graves, the bodies were buried with their heads facing South, women on their right side, looking East, men on their left side, looking West. Men were usually buried with axes laid near their face and a knife at their hip, Occasionally they were buried with pottery behind their head (in which case an axe is usually not present). Wagons, animals, beakers, flint blades, amber beads, copper tools, and shell ornaments are also found as grave goods.

=== '''Migrations and Relations to Later People''' ===
The Corded Ware are ancestral to all Northern Europeans to a greater or lesser extent, in the East the Finns, Estonians, and North Russians carry the highest percentage of Corded Ware admixture. In the West it is the Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Kursk. And in the North, it is the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Germans. The people of the British Isles also have a strong connection to the Corded Ware, with a large and relatively rapid migration taking place sometime around 2500 BC, which wiped out most of the pre-existing people of the Megalithic cCulture. The men of the Corded Ware were mostly R1B and R1A, and Corded Ware people also had some of the highest prevalence of the gene RS 4988235, ( the gene which allows the digestion of milk into adulthood), at the time.

Corded Ware

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== <ref>Celtic History Decoded. The Genetic Melting Pot of Europe… Corded Ware Culture DNA Revealed https://youtu.be/cNMWEXzHfDA?si=fU8GYOWlUW4JlALE</ref><ref>Dan Davis History. The Stone Battle Axe of Neolithic Europe https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=Chh7zOeShZDkYx1Z</ref><ref>Dan Davis History. The Corded Ware Culture | Prehistoric Europe Documentary (3000-2500) https://youtu.be/ecmeQT7R7rk?si=l0znc5C7_LJszaBq</ref>'''The Corded Ware Culture''' ==

=== Origin ===
The Corded Ware were a late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age people who lived in the land between the Rhine and Volga Rivers, from 3000-2300 BC. They were fairly genetically diverse compared to other people‘s of their time. Showing Yamnaya and possible pre-Yamnaya influence, as well as Neolithic European Farmer admixture. Their genetic record seems to indicate an integration of neolithic farmer and steppe herder DNA.

=== Culture ===

==== '''Lifestyle''' ====
The Corded Ware are so named for the impressions, resembling cords or rope, found on the pottery associated with them in the archaeological record. Evidence for settlements and permanent buildings is not well attested to, but is present in the record. This has led to some debate as to whether they were nomadic or sedentary. They raised cattle and sheep, as well as planted Emmer wheat, Common wheat and Barley. They used wagons, probably pulled by oxen, and may have used the wool from the sheep they raised to make textiles of some kind. Because they were spread over such a large area and were the result of various peoples intermarrying there is some cultural variation, across time and the area they inhabited. Scientists have categorized several sub groups of the Corded Ware, two of the better known are the Singl e Grave Culture, and the Battle Axe Culture.

The Single Grave Culture, is so named because of the prevalence of individually buried people attributed to them. They lived in Scandinavia Northern Germany, and the Low Countries.

The Battle Axe Culture, so named because of the prevalence of polished flint axes(as well as bronze) found in their graves, often these are both shaped. They lived mainly in Southern Scandinavia, Norway, and Finland.

==== ''' Diet''' ====
Meat (beef, mutton, and wild game) as well as grains(Common, and Emmer wheat, and Barley) were both consumed, though the prevalence of grains is debated, due to their scarcity in the archaeological record. Dairy products were also eaten, and alcohol is believed to have been a part of the diet, based on the prevalence of drinking vessels and linguistic studies.

'''Language'''

They spoke a dialect of the Proto into European language, and are most likely the fathers of Proto Germanic, as well as Proto Slavic – Baltic.

'''Burial Customs'''

The dead were generally buried singularly in low flat Graves, sometimes with a low mound raise over it sometimes without. Men were generally buried on their right side with their head facing West and their face to the South with their knees bent. Women were usually buried on their left side with their head facing East And their face to the South. Though in some Polish graves, the bodies were buried with their heads facing South, women on their right side, looking East, men on their left side, looking West. Men were usually buried with axes laid near their face and a knife at their hip, Occasionally they were buried with pottery behind their head (in which case an axe is usually not present). Wagons, animals, beakers, flint blades, amber beads, copper tools, and shell ornaments are also found as grave goods.

=== '''Migrations and Relations to Later People''' ===
The Corded Ware are ancestral to all Northern Europeans to a greater or lesser extent, in the East the Finns, Estonians, and North Russians carry the highest percentage of Corded Ware admixture. In the West it is the Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Kursk. And in the North, it is the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Germans. The people of the British Isles also have a strong connection to the Corded Ware, with a large and relatively rapid migration taking place sometime around 2500 BC, which wiped out most of the pre-existing people of the Megalithic cCulture. The men of the Corded Ware were mostly R1B and R1A, and Corded Ware people also had some of the highest prevalence of the gene RS 4988235, ( the gene which allows the digestion of milk into adulthood), at the time.

Corded Ware

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== <ref>Dan Davis History. The Stone Battle Axe of Neolithic Europe https://youtu.be/X1PduS2ocl8?si=Chh7zOeShZDkYx1Z</ref><ref>Dan Davis History. The Corded Ware Culture | Prehistoric Europe Documentary (3000-2500) https://youtu.be/ecmeQT7R7rk?si=l0znc5C7_LJszaBq</ref>'''The Corded Ware Culture''' ==

=== Origin ===
The Corded Ware were a late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age people who lived in the land between the Rhine and Volga Rivers, from 3000-2300 BC. They were fairly genetically diverse compared to other people‘s of their time. Showing Yamnaya and possible pre-Yamnaya influence, as well as Neolithic European Farmer admixture. Their genetic record seems to indicate an integration of neolithic farmer and steppe herder DNA.

=== Culture ===

==== '''Lifestyle''' ====
The Corded Ware are so named for the impressions, resembling cords or rope, found on the pottery associated with them in the archaeological record. Evidence for settlements and permanent buildings is not well attested to, but is present in the record. This has led to some debate as to whether they were nomadic or sedentary. They raised cattle and sheep, as well as planted Emmer wheat, Common wheat and Barley. They used wagons, probably pulled by oxen, and may have used the wool from the sheep they raised to make textiles of some kind. Because they were spread over such a large area and were the result of various peoples intermarrying there is some cultural variation, across time and the area they inhabited. Scientists have categorized several sub groups of the Corded Ware, two of the better known are the Singl e Grave Culture, and the Battle Axe Culture.

The Single Grave Culture, is so named because of the prevalence of individually buried people attributed to them. They lived in Scandinavia Northern Germany, and the Low Countries.

The Battle Axe Culture, so named because of the prevalence of polished flint axes(as well as bronze) found in their graves, often these are both shaped. They lived mainly in Southern Scandinavia, Norway, and Finland.

==== ''' Diet''' ====
Meat (beef, mutton, and wild game) as well as grains(Common, and Emmer wheat, and Barley) were both consumed, though the prevalence of grains is debated, due to their scarcity in the archaeological record. Dairy products were also eaten, and alcohol is believed to have been a part of the diet, based on the prevalence of drinking vessels and linguistic studies.

'''Language'''

They spoke a dialect of the Proto into European language, and are most likely the fathers of Proto Germanic, as well as Proto Slavic – Baltic.

'''Burial Customs'''

The dead were generally buried singularly in low flat Graves, sometimes with a low mound raise over it sometimes without. Men were generally buried on their right side with their head facing West and their face to the South with their knees bent. Women were usually buried on their left side with their head facing East And their face to the South. Though in some Polish graves, the bodies were buried with their heads facing South, women on their right side, looking East, men on their left side, looking West. Men were usually buried with axes laid near their face and a knife at their hip, Occasionally they were buried with pottery behind their head (in which case an axe is usually not present). Wagons, animals, beakers, flint blades, amber beads, copper tools, and shell ornaments are also found as grave goods.

=== '''Migrations and Relations to Later People''' ===
The Corded Ware are ancestral to all Northern Europeans to a greater or lesser extent, in the East the Finns, Estonians, and North Russians carry the highest percentage of Corded Ware admixture. In the West it is the Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Kursk. And in the North, it is the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Germans. The people of the British Isles also have a strong connection to the Corded Ware, with a large and relatively rapid migration taking place sometime around 2500 BC, which wiped out most of the pre-existing people of the Megalithic cCulture. The men of the Corded Ware were mostly R1B and R1A, and Corded Ware people also had some of the highest prevalence of the gene RS 4988235, ( the gene which allows the digestion of milk into adulthood), at the time.

Corded Ware

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== <ref>Dan Davis History. The Corded Ware Culture | Prehistoric Europe Documentary (3000-2500) https://youtu.be/ecmeQT7R7rk?si=l0znc5C7_LJszaBq</ref>'''The Corded Ware Culture''' ==

=== Origin ===
The Corded Ware were a late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age people who lived in the land between the Rhine and Volga Rivers, from 3000-2300 BC. They were fairly genetically diverse compared to other people‘s of their time. Showing Yamnaya and possible pre-Yamnaya influence, as well as Neolithic European Farmer admixture. Their genetic record seems to indicate an integration of neolithic farmer and steppe herder DNA.

=== Culture ===

==== '''Lifestyle''' ====
The Corded Ware are so named for the impressions, resembling cords or rope, found on the pottery associated with them in the archaeological record. Evidence for settlements and permanent buildings is not well attested to, but is present in the record. This has led to some debate as to whether they were nomadic or sedentary. They raised cattle and sheep, as well as planted Emmer wheat, Common wheat and Barley. They used wagons, probably pulled by oxen, and may have used the wool from the sheep they raised to make textiles of some kind. Because they were spread over such a large area and were the result of various peoples intermarrying there is some cultural variation, across time and the area they inhabited. Scientists have categorized several sub groups of the Corded Ware, two of the better known are the Singl e Grave Culture, and the Battle Axe Culture.

The Single Grave Culture, is so named because of the prevalence of individually buried people attributed to them. They lived in Scandinavia Northern Germany, and the Low Countries.

The Battle Axe Culture, so named because of the prevalence of polished flint axes(as well as bronze) found in their graves, often these are both shaped. They lived mainly in Southern Scandinavia, Norway, and Finland.

==== ''' Diet''' ====
Meat (beef, mutton, and wild game) as well as grains(Common, and Emmer wheat, and Barley) were both consumed, though the prevalence of grains is debated, due to their scarcity in the archaeological record. Dairy products were also eaten, and alcohol is believed to have been a part of the diet, based on the prevalence of drinking vessels and linguistic studies.

'''Language'''

They spoke a dialect of the Proto into European language, and are most likely the fathers of Proto Germanic, as well as Proto Slavic – Baltic.

'''Burial Customs'''

The dead were generally buried singularly in low flat Graves, sometimes with a low mound raise over it sometimes without. Men were generally buried on their right side with their head facing West and their face to the South with their knees bent. Women were usually buried on their left side with their head facing East And their face to the South. Though in some Polish graves, the bodies were buried with their heads facing South, women on their right side, looking East, men on their left side, looking West. Men were usually buried with axes laid near their face and a knife at their hip, Occasionally they were buried with pottery behind their head (in which case an axe is usually not present). Wagons, animals, beakers, flint blades, amber beads, copper tools, and shell ornaments are also found as grave goods.

=== '''Migrations and Relations to Later People''' ===
The Corded Ware are ancestral to all Northern Europeans to a greater or lesser extent, in the East the Finns, Estonians, and North Russians carry the highest percentage of Corded Ware admixture. In the West it is the Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Kursk. And in the North, it is the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Germans. The people of the British Isles also have a strong connection to the Corded Ware, with a large and relatively rapid migration taking place sometime around 2500 BC, which wiped out most of the pre-existing people of the Megalithic cCulture. The men of the Corded Ware were mostly R1B and R1A, and Corded Ware people also had some of the highest prevalence of the gene RS 4988235, ( the gene which allows the digestion of milk into adulthood), at the time.

The Yamnaya Culture

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== <ref>The Horse the Wheel and Language, how Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes shaped the Modern World. David W. Anthony</ref><ref>Anthromedia. Yamnaya Pastoralists: Ancestors of Indo Europeans<nowiki/>https://youtu.be/xA2WyIGXPIw?si=_Ff6Oy-VcPWYLY7R</ref><ref>Dan Davis History. The Yamnaya Culture | Bronze age Steppe Herders https://youtu.be/GalZLoTeU74?si=S6UCYHQIJSwuBtmY</ref>Origins ==
The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

=== '''Diet''' ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

=== '''Language''' ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

== Migrations ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and [[Corded Ware]] Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup being introduced into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

The Yamnaya Culture

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== <ref>Anthromedia. Yamnaya Pastoralists: Ancestors of Indo Europeans<nowiki/>https://youtu.be/xA2WyIGXPIw?si=_Ff6Oy-VcPWYLY7R</ref><ref>Dan Davis History. The Yamnaya Culture | Bronze age Steppe Herders https://youtu.be/GalZLoTeU74?si=S6UCYHQIJSwuBtmY</ref>Origins ==
The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

=== '''Diet''' ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

=== '''Language''' ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

== Migrations ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and [[Corded Ware]] Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup being introduced into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

The Yamnaya Culture

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== <ref>Dan Davis History. The Yamnaya Culture | Bronze age Steppe Herders https://youtu.be/GalZLoTeU74?si=S6UCYHQIJSwuBtmY</ref>Origins ==
The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

=== '''Diet''' ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

=== '''Language''' ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

== Migrations ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and [[Corded Ware]] Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup being introduced into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

The Yamnaya Culture

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MJDAvechristusrex: /* Migrations */

== Origins ==
The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

=== '''Diet''' ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

=== '''Language''' ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

== Migrations ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and [[Corded Ware]] Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup being introduced into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

Corded Ware

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== '''The Corded Ware Culture''' ==

=== Origin ===
The Corded Ware were a late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age people who lived in the land between the Rhine and Volga Rivers, from 3000-2300 BC. They were fairly genetically diverse compared to other people‘s of their time. Showing Yamnaya and possible pre-Yamnaya influence, as well as Neolithic European Farmer admixture. Their genetic record seems to indicate an integration of neolithic farmer and steppe herder DNA.

=== Culture ===

==== '''Lifestyle''' ====
The Corded Ware are so named for the impressions, resembling cords or rope, found on the pottery associated with them in the archaeological record. Evidence for settlements and permanent buildings is not well attested to, but is present in the record. This has led to some debate as to whether they were nomadic or sedentary. They raised cattle and sheep, as well as planted Emmer wheat, Common wheat and Barley. They used wagons, probably pulled by oxen, and may have used the wool from the sheep they raised to make textiles of some kind. Because they were spread over such a large area and were the result of various peoples intermarrying there is some cultural variation, across time and the area they inhabited. Scientists have categorized several sub groups of the Corded Ware, two of the better known are the Singl e Grave Culture, and the Battle Axe Culture.

The Single Grave Culture, is so named because of the prevalence of individually buried people attributed to them. They lived in Scandinavia Northern Germany, and the Low Countries.

The Battle Axe Culture, so named because of the prevalence of polished flint axes(as well as bronze) found in their graves, often these are both shaped. They lived mainly in Southern Scandinavia, Norway, and Finland.

==== ''' Diet''' ====
Meat (beef, mutton, and wild game) as well as grains(Common, and Emmer wheat, and Barley) were both consumed, though the prevalence of grains is debated, due to their scarcity in the archaeological record. Dairy products were also eaten, and alcohol is believed to have been a part of the diet, based on the prevalence of drinking vessels and linguistic studies.

'''Language'''

They spoke a dialect of the Proto into European language, and are most likely the fathers of Proto Germanic, as well as Proto Slavic – Baltic.

'''Burial Customs'''

The dead were generally buried singularly in low flat Graves, sometimes with a low mound raise over it sometimes without. Men were generally buried on their right side with their head facing West and their face to the South with their knees bent. Women were usually buried on their left side with their head facing East And their face to the South. Though in some Polish graves, the bodies were buried with their heads facing South, women on their right side, looking East, men on their left side, looking West. Men were usually buried with axes laid near their face and a knife at their hip, Occasionally they were buried with pottery behind their head (in which case an axe is usually not present). Wagons, animals, beakers, flint blades, amber beads, copper tools, and shell ornaments are also found as grave goods.

=== '''Migrations and Relations to Later People''' ===
The Corded Ware are ancestral to all Northern Europeans to a greater or lesser extent, in the East the Finns, Estonians, and North Russians carry the highest percentage of Corded Ware admixture. In the West it is the Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Kursk. And in the North, it is the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Germans. The people of the British Isles also have a strong connection to the Corded Ware, with a large and relatively rapid migration taking place sometime around 2500 BC, which wiped out most of the pre-existing people of the Megalithic cCulture. The men of the Corded Ware were mostly R1B and R1A, and Corded Ware people also had some of the highest prevalence of the gene RS 4988235, ( the gene which allows the digestion of milk into adulthood), at the time.

Corded Ware

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== '''The Corded Ware Culture''' ==

=== Origins ===
The Corded Ware were a late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age people who lived in the land between the Rhine and Volga Rivers, from 3000-2300 BC. They were fairly genetically diverse compared to other people‘s of their time. Showing Yamnaya and possible pre-Yamnaya influence, as well as Neolithic European Farmer admixture. Their genetic record seems to indicate an integration of neolithic farmer and steppe herder DNA.

=== Culture ===

==== ''' Lifestyle''' ====
The Corded Ware are so named for the impressions, resembling cords or rope, found on the pottery associated with them in the archaeological record. Evidence for settlements and permanent buildings is not well attested to, but is present in the record. This has led to some debate as to whether they were nomadic or sedentary. They raised cattle and sheep, as well as planted Emmer wheat, Common wheat and Barley. They used wagons, probably pulled by oxen, and may have used the wool from the sheep they raised to make textiles of some kind. Because they were spread over such a large area and were the result of various peoples intermarrying there is some cultural variation, across time and the area they inhabited. Scientists have categorized several sub groups of the Corded Ware, two of the better known are the Singl e Grave Culture, and the Battle Axe Culture.

The Single Grave Culture, is so named because of the prevalence of individually buried people attributed to them. They lived in Scandinavia Northern Germany, and the Low Countries.

The Battle Axe Culture, so named because of the prevalence of polished flint axes(as well as bronze) found in their graves, often these are both shaped. They lived mainly in Southern Scandinavia, Norway, and Finland.

==== ''' Diet''' ====
Meat (beef, mutton, and wild game) as well as grains(Common, and Emmer wheat, and Barley) were both consumed, though the prevalence of grains is debated, due to their scarcity in the archaeological record. Dairy products were also eaten, and alcohol is believed to have been a part of the diet, based on the prevalence of drinking vessels and linguistic studies.

==== ''' Language''' ====
They spoke a dialect of the Proto into European language, and are most likely the fathers of Proto Germanic, as well as Proto Slavic – Baltic.

''' Burial Customs'''

The dead were generally buried singularly in low flat Graves, sometimes with a low mound raise over it sometimes without. Men were generally buried on their right side with their head facing West and their face to the South with their knees bent. Women were usually buried on their left side with their head facing East And their face to the South. Though in some Polish graves, the bodies were buried with their heads facing South, women on their right side, looking East, men on their left side, looking West. Men were usually buried with axes laid near their face and a knife at their hip, Occasionally they were buried with pottery behind their head (in which case an axe is usually not present). Wagons, animals, beakers, flint blades, amber beads, copper tools, and shell ornaments are also found as grave goods.

=== ''' Migrations and Relations to Later People''' ===
The Corded Ware are ancestral to all Northern Europeans to a greater or lesser extent, in the East the Finns, Estonians, and North Russians carry the highest percentage of Corded Ware admixture. In the West it is the Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians from Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, and Kursk. And in the North, it is the Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Germans. The people of the British Isles also have a strong connection to the Corded Ware, with a large and relatively rapid migration taking place sometime around 2500 BC, which wiped out most of the pre-existing people of the Megalithic cCulture. The men of the Corded Ware were mostly R1B and R1A, and Corded Ware people also had some of the highest prevalence of the gene RS 4988235, at the time.

The Yamnaya Culture

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== Origins ==
The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

=== '''Diet''' ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

=== '''Language''' ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

== Migrations ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many pla ces and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and Corded Ware Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup being introduced into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

The Yamnaya Culture

2025-10-28T01:02:38Z

MJDAvechristusrex: Added missing words

== Origins ==
The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

=== '''Diet''' ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

=== '''Language''' ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

== Migrations ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and Corded Ware Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup being introduced into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

The Yamnaya Culture

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MJDAvechristusrex: Fixed headings

== Origins ==
The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.

== Culture ==

=== Lifestyle ===
The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

=== '''Diet''' ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

=== '''Language''' ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

=== '''Burial Customs''' ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

== Migrations ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and Corded Ware Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

The Yamnaya Culture

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MJDAvechristusrex: Reformatted headings

== '''Origins.''' ==
The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.

== '''Culture''' ==

=== '''Lifestyle'''. ===
The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

=== '''Diet'''. ===
Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

=== '''Language'''. ===
The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

=== '''Burial Customs'''. ===
They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

== '''Migrations'''. ==
As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and Corded Ware Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

The Yamnaya Culture

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'''Lifestyle'''.

The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

'''Diet'''.

Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

'''Language'''.

The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

'''Burial Customs'''.

They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

'''Migrations'''.

As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and Corded Ware Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

'''Origins'''.

The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.

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The Yamnaya Culture

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'''The Yamnaya Culture'''

'''Lifestyle'''.

The Yamnaya were a group of prehistoric people who lived on the Pontic Caspian Steppe from 3000 to 2500 BC, during the late Copper Age on into the Bronze Age. They lived as nomadic or semi nomadic herders, traveling the grasslands in wagons and on horseback, this allowed them to access more and better grass for their herds of cattle and sheep. This in turn allowed them to acquire more wealth in the form of livestock and thereby become one of the most dominant people of their time.

'''Diet'''.

Their diets consisted mainly of meat (mostly beef, mutton, and pork, but also horse and wild game) along with dairy products like cheese, yogurt, and butter. Evidence for grain is scarce but not completely absent, wheat, amaranth, and millet were the most common grains consumed. Honey and Mead were most likely included, along with wild fruits and plants.

'''Language'''.

The Yamnaya are generally considered to be the fathers of the Proto Indo, European language, which evolved into the Indo European language family. This language family accounts for around 6% of all spoken languages today (445– 449 of the current 7000 languages spoken) but around 3 billion people speak a Proto Indo European language (45–46% of the world’s population).

'''Burial Customs'''.

They buried certain of their dead in pits covered by a mound of earth, called a barrow or kurgan. This is the origin of their name : Yamnaya, which comes from a Russian adjective “ Yamna” meaning “related to or concerning pits“.

There were three types of graves used

1.Pit Graves, a simple pit covered with branches or large flat stones. These are the earliest graves.

2.Catacomb Graves similar to pit Graves, but with “rooms” or “chambers” branching off of the main grave. These originate from the middle bronze age.

3.Timber Graves, these graves have a small house like structure, built over them, usually of branches and small trees, sometimes of bundles of reeds. These are the latest Graves.

Individuals buried in these graves are generally considered to be of higher status, and usually are lying on their back with their knees raised and their head facing east. They are often laying on mats made of reads, sometimes these are painted. The floor and or the body is often covered in red ocher dust. They are generally buried with grave goods such as daggers axes, pestles,flint arrowheads, pottery, knives, animals, and even wagons.The graves are covered with a mound, and these may include rings of stone. The Earthen mounds raised over the graves are generally 30 to 40 foot wide, but can be as wide as 120 foot, and up to 12 foot high.

'''Migrations'''.

As a nomadic people, they left their mark, genetically and linguistically on many places and peoples, including Europe, western China and India, among others. Groups migrating into Europe, mixed with the European Neolithic farmers, and this eventually led to the formation of the Bell Beaker and Corded Ware Cultures. The Yamnaya are responsible for introducing the R1B Y haplogroup into Europe. The R1B haplogroup is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe today with the largest concentration in the British Isles.

'''Origins'''.

The Yamnaya are generally believed to have originated on the Volga Don Steppes, near the Volga River. This was first suggested by Nikolai Merperts. I. V. Sinitsyn excavated a series of barrows on the eastern side of the Volga River, between Saratov and Volgograd in modern day Russia, from 1951 to 1953. Based on analysis of pottery found in the lowest (and therefore oldest) graves, the Yamnaya are most likely of Repin and Kvalynsk origins. The pottery of Repin origin was found in barrows from the Don and middle Volga region. Pottery of Kvalynsk origin is found in barrows on the lower Volga River. This style eventually came to replace the Pottery of Repin origin. Daggers and sleeved axes, however show Miakop-Novosobodnaya influence. The Yamnaya spread out from this area relatively rapidly onto the Pontic Caspian Steppe, between 3400 and 2800 BC. Most of the pre-existing people’s persisted until around 2800 BC, at which time most have left the archaeological record, having been absorbed by the Yamnaya.