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The Corded Ware Culture: Complex Movements and Cultural Integration
TLDR The Corded Ware Culture, characterized by migration and movement of people over long distances, was a result of a complex melting pot of networks connecting migrants to existing farming communities and other migrant communities. It involved multidirectional and complex movements of people, practices, and ideas, challenging the notion of a large-scale migration and emphasizing the interconnectedness of smaller-scale movements.
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A group of herders from the Corded Ware Culture is attacked by raiders, resulting in the death of thirteen people.
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The Corded Ware Culture were herders who migrated west into Europe, fought with Neolithic farmers, and left behind legacies in the Bronze Age.
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The Corded Ware Culture is an archaeological complex that spread from east to west starting around 3000 BC, characterized by a specific burial rite involving inhumation of a single individual, usually a man, under an earthen mound called a barrow.
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The Corded Ware Culture is characterized by distinctive burial rites and material culture, but there are regional variations and complexities that challenge the notion of a single unified culture.
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The Neolithic farmers of Koshitsa in southeastern Poland were likely killed by aggressive newcomers from the steppe who sought out their rivals for resources and land.
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The distinctive Corded Ware culture, characterized by burial under a mound and the presence of battle axes, originated in Jutland, not the steppe, and spread from there, challenging the idea of mass migration as the sole explanation for its distribution.
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The Corded Ware culture, characterized by migration and movement of people over long distances, was likely a result of a complex melting pot of networks connecting migrants to existing farming communities and other migrant communities, rather than a simple mass migration.
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The Corded Ware expansion was likely driven by closely related men with a specific Y chromosome haplogroup, who migrated from the steppe to various locations in Europe, creating new pastures and encountering both violent and non-violent interactions with existing farming communities.
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The Corded Ware culture exhibited a pattern of female exogamy, with men of steppe ancestry marrying local women from Neolithic farming communities, likely due to a combination of factors including abduction, integration into existing patrilineal frameworks, and the availability of different diets in different communities.
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The Corded Ware culture was characterized by continuous diffusion of cultural traits, including pottery, battle axes, and beaker-like vessels, among connected communities through marriage, ancestry, trade, and conflict, suggesting a fluid and interconnected network of smaller-scale movements rather than a large-scale migration.
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The Corded Ware culture involved multidirectional and complex movements of people, practices, and ideas, with evidence of cultural integration, violence, and diffusion of new ideas, challenging the notion of a large-scale migration and emphasizing the interconnectedness of smaller-scale movements.
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