Comb Ceramic Culture

The estonian first farmers of corded ware culture show high similarity in their autosomes with european hunter gatherers steppe eneolithic and bronze age.

Comb ceramic culture.

Of comb ceramic culture are closest to eastern hunter gatherers which is in contrast to earlier hunter gatherers from the baltics who are close to western hunter gatherers 8 9. The swedish crown began incorporating finland from 1100 to 1200 but the novgorod tried to gain control of the area and this resulted. The bronze age indo european fatyanovo balanovo culture 3200 2300 bce progressively took over the baltic region and southern finland from. It existed from around 4200 bc to around 2000 bc.

The comb ceramic culture or pit comb ware culture was a northeast european stone age culture. The pit comb ware culture is one of the few exceptions to the rule that pottery and farming coexist in europe. The pit comb ware culture aka comb ceramic culture was a northeast european culture of pottery making hunter gatherers. It existed from around 4200 bc to around 2000 bc.

In the near east farming appeared before pottery then when farming spread into europe from the near east pottery making came with it however in asia where the oldest pottery has been found pottery was made long before farming. The comb ceramic culture or pit comb ware culture often abbreviated as ccc or pcw was a northeast european characterised by its pit comb ware it existed from around 4200 bce to around 2000 bce. The name is derived from the most common type of decoration on its ceramics which looks like the imprints of a comb. It existed from around 4200 bc to around 2000 bc.

2014 confirmed the presence of n1c in the comb ceramic culture with a sample from the late neolithic site of serteya ii in the smolensk region of russia near the belarussian border which dates from the middle of 3rd millenium bce. The kiukainen culture arrived in the southwestern coastal region around 2000bc. The comb ceramic culture belongs to the great northeastern european group of hunting and fishing cultures that extended from the vistula river to the arctic ocean and all the way to siberia. The name is derived from the most common type of decoration on its ceramics which looks like the imprints of a comb.

Present day finland was part of the kunda culture up to 5000bc and from 4200bc to 2000bc it belonged to the comb ceramic culture. The bearers of the comb ceramic culture are thought to have still mostly followed the mesolithic hunter gatherer lifestyle with traces of early agriculture. Archaeologists consider a culture new when its relics are found to have undergone a decisive change in character but they cannot definitely determine. The name is derived from the most common type of decoration on its ceramics which looks like the imprints of a comb.

The following illustration from a children s book about stone age finland portrays what could be a shaman using an iron oxide mixture to create.