Cultures

Yamnaya Culture

Late Neolithic culture of horizon of the lower Volga and Don steppes, regarded by some as the predecessor to the Corded Ware, Single Grave, or Kurgan culture.

Yamnaya Culture

Pitted-Ware Culture

In Sweden and Finland, a series of foraging groups during the 3rd-1st millennia BC, part of the circumpolar complex of Holocene foragers. Amber ornaments were made widely and communities depended on seals and pigs for subsistence.

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Pitted-Ware Culture

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Lima Culture

An Early Intermediate Period (c 200 BC-600 AD) culture of the central coast of Peru. Its major population centers were Cajamarquilla and Pachacamac. There are ceramics (Maranga, Interlocking style) showing the influence of the Moche culture. Changes in the pottery style during the Middle Horizon ...

Lima Culture

Liang-Chu

A Middle and Late Neolithic culture in central southern China, with its type site in Jiangsu Province, originating c 3000 BC. Its painted pottery succeeded Yang-Shao culture and preceded or was contemporary with the Longshan culture; Liangzhu is a continuation of the Majibang culture of the same ...

Liang-Chu

Volga-Oka Culture

Mesolithic and Neolithic groups of the Central Russian Plain, related to Forest Neolithic groups of the Baltic. Pottery was adopted by hunter-gatherers who also fished.

Volga-Oka Culture

Magdalenian

The final major European culture of the Upper Paleolithic period, from about 15,000-10,000 years ago; characterized by composite or specialized tools, tailored clothing, and especially geometric and representational cave art (e.g. Altamira) and for beautiful decorative work in bone and ivory (mob...

Magdalenian

Kremikovci

Early Neolithic culture of the Balkans, on the Bulgarian border in Macedonia. It is contemporaneous with the Karanovo I culture of southern Bulgaria, Starcevo culture of Serbia and Bosnia, Körös culture of southern Hungary, and the Cris culture of Romania. The ceramics are white-on-red or black-o...

Kremikovci

Cycladic Culture

Ege Denizinin güneyinde gelişim göstermiş Kiklad Kültürü olarak da anılabilecek Erken Bronz Çağı kültürü. Kiklad Adaları denilen adalar üzerinde İ.Ö. 3300-2000 tarihleri arasında varlığını sürdürmüştür. Kültür, yerel mermerden yapılmış karakterize figürinler, iyi işçilik ile yapılmış pişmiş topra...

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Cycladic Culture

Culture which developed on the Cyclades Islands in the southern Aegean during the phase known as the Early Bronze Age or Early Cycladic (c.3300–2000), characterized by a series of fine figurines made from the local marble. Most of the evidence of the culture is from its – much looted – cemeteries...