This video summarizes the “Corded Ware Culture” that was very prominent throughout Central, Northern, and Eastern Europe between 3,000 BC and 2,350 BC.

Following are points from the video:

— The “Corded Ware Culture” are named after their pottery that was created by stacking and smoothing rolls of clay.

— They are largely descended from the “Yamna” culture in the Eastern Steppes, where migrating steppe herder men often had offspring with the neolithic women in the regions were they migrated, where the local men were unfortunately either killed, enslaved, or out-competed by the incoming men.  However, women sometimes migrated with them as well, and not all of the original men were displaced.

— They had a mobile, pastoral economy that relied mostly on cattle and cereal cultivation.

— Archeologists almost never find houses or settlements from the culture, and they are known almost entirely by their graves where they were buried in a very consistent ritualistic manner.  They are often buried with items such as pottery, battle axes, flint blades, amber objects, copper ornaments, and shell ornaments.

— They relied on horses and ox-drawn wagons for mobility, and they used copper and bronze artifacts, as well as stone axes for fighting.

— They disseminated the proto-Germanic and proto-Slavic languages that also includes English along with most of the other current European languages.  Their DNA is particularly ancestral to people currently living in Eastern Europe and Russia, however there was also a large migration to the British Islands in 2,500 BC from the Rhine area, replacing the people who built Stonehenge.


This video is created by Dan Davis, promoting his book “Thunderer,” available on Amazon.