Corded Ware

proper noun

A broad archaeological horizon of Europe between c. 3000 BC – 2350 BC, characterized by pottery with cord-like impressions or ornamentation.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. attributiveA broad archaeological horizon of Europe between c. 3000 BC – 2350 BC, characterized by pottery with cord-like impressions or ornamentation.

    A Corded Ware way of life may have been adopted in Finno-Ugrian regions by people still living a sub-Neolithic, foraging way of life, for whom the mobility of herding would have come naturally.

    2006, Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason, Encyclopedia of European Peoples, page 252
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