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Corded Ware
Central Europe (~4,000 years ago)
metal age invader found
The Neolithic Early Farming culture of Central Europe was culturally and physically replaced by 2,800 BCE. The new inhabitants of this region, the Yamnaya, brought culture and Early Bronze age technology originating from the Eurasian Steppe. Later cultures inhabiting Central Europe, most notably the Corded Ware culture of the late Neolithic, could identify an average of 75% ancestry from the Yamnaya culture. The remaining 25% show ancestry from Early Neolithic Farming Cultures like the Linearbandkeramik. Changes in subsistence strategy and culture can be identified through DNA analysis, as well as changes in cultural practices such as burial rituals and practices. Cultural evolution in this area is displayed in the arrival of pit burial practices and agro-pastoral subsistence strategies.