Narva

A Neolithic culture and its type site in the eastern Baltic coast region (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; parts of Poland, Belarus) and dated to the 4th-3rd millennium BC. Similar in type to the ancestral Kunda culture, the Narva economy was based on hunting and fishing, with more tools of bone and antler than stone. Simple pointed-based pottery (with straight or S-profiles) and oval bowls was made. Important sites are Osa, Sarnate, Sventoji, and Narva-town.

The eponymous site of a late Mesolithic culture distributed on and near the Baltic coast of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and dated to the 4th-3rd millennium be. Similar in type to the ancestral Kunda culture, the Narva economy was based on hunting and fishing, with more tools of bone and antler than stone. Simple pointed-based pottery was adopted by stimulus diffusion from groups further to the south (e.g. the Dnieper-Donets group).