Encyclopedia - Funnelbeaker Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Funnelbeaker Culture - Religion And Graves
The houses were centered around a monumental grave, a symbol of social cohesion. Burial practices were varied, depending on region and ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture
The Corded Ware culture, Battle Axe culture or Single Grave culture is an enormous European archaeological horizon that begins in the lat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Subgroups
The core group spread its pottery nearly everywhere. Corded Ware culture - Corded Ware culture. The prototypal Corded Ware culture, Ger...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Västergötland: Encyclopedia - Västergötland
Västergötland â–¶ (help·info) is one of the historical provinces of Sweden (landskap), situated in the southwest of Sweden. "VästergÃ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beaker Culture: Encyclopedia - Beaker Culture
The Beaker culture (also Bell-Beaker culture, Beaker people, or Beaker folk, German Glockenbecherkultur), ca. 2600 — 1900 BC, is the te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dolmen: Encyclopedia - Dolmen
Dolmens, cromlechs, Hünengräber or Hunebedden are megalithic tombs consisting of large stones ("megaliths") set in formation and origin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 3rd Millennium Bc: Encyclopedia - 3rd Millennium Bc
(4th millennium BC – 3rd millennium BC – 2nd millennium BC – other millennia) 3rd millennium BC - Events. The 3rd millennium BC re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Language
The Corded Ware culture was long pointed to as the cultural horizon best fitting the description for the Urheimat (original homeland) of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Extent
It encompassed most of continental northern Europe from the Rhine River on the west, to the Volga River in the east, including most of mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Origins And Development
Considering its immense, continental expanse, it clearly represents a fusion of earlier archaeological cultures of varying degrees of rel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Language
The Corded Ware culture was long pointed to as the cultural horizon best fitting the description for the Urheimat (original homeland) of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Origins And Development
Considering its immense, continental expanse, it clearly represents a fusion of earlier archaeological cultures of varying degrees of rel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corded Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Corded Ware Culture - Graves
Inhumation was characteristically done one metre deep, without any marks, in a flexed position; males lay on their right side, females on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alvastra Pile-dwelling: Encyclopedia Ii - Alvastra Pile-dwelling - Construction
The archaeologists found stilts made of deciduous trees, notably oak, hazel, elm and crabapple. A dendrochronological study showed that t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Struggle For Independence And The Golden Age
History of the Netherlands - Eighty Years' War. For details, see the main Eighty Years' War article. Through inheritance and conquest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ertebølle Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Ertebølle Culture - Economy
Ertebølle peoples lived primarily on seafood and their midden sites are found in coastal parts of Scandinavia. Later, they became potter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Västergötland: Encyclopedia Ii - Västergötland - History
Västergötland - Prehistory and middle ages. There are many ancient remains in Västergötland, and most prominent are probably the do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pitted Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Pitted Ware Culture - Objects
The culture has been named after the ornamentation of its pottery, which is usually round pits and horizontal lines. The vessels are unif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Substrate Hypothesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Substrate Hypothesis - Distinct Language Group
That the Germanic languages form a markedly distinct group within Indo-European is beyond question. Grimm's law was a profound sound chan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 3rd Millennium Bc: Encyclopedia Ii - 3rd Millennium Bc - Events
The 3rd millennium BC represents the beginning of factual history, since it is the first time we do have real names to name and detailed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neolithic Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Neolithic Europe - Pre-indo-european Peoples
The earliest modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens - as opposed to Neanderthals - to enter Europe did so perhaps around 50,000 years ago...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Globular Amphora Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Globular Amphora Culture - Interpretation
The inclusion of animals into the grave indicate an intrusive cultural element, that is, probably a new people. The practice of suttee is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beaker Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Beaker Culture - Interpretation
Given the unusual form and fabric of Beaker pottery, and its abrupt appearance in the archaeological record, the traditional explanation ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rügen: Encyclopedia Ii - Rügen - History
Rügen was first populated about 4000 BC. The migrants were probably members of the Funnelbeaker culture, which exploited the island's fl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Holy Roman Empire
The newcomers merged with the original inhabitants to create three peoples in the Low Countries: the Frisians along the coast, the Saxons...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Burgundian Period
Most of what is now the Netherlands and Belgium was eventually united by the Duke of Burgundy in 1433. Before the Burgundian union, the D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Monarchy
After the Napoleonic era the Netherlands were put back on the map of Europe. The country had always been part of the precarious balance o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Västergötland: Encyclopedia Ii - Västergötland - Culture
Västergötland - Tongue. In Västergötland the Götaland dialect of Swedish is spoken. The dialect has several varieties like the one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pitted Ware Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Pitted Ware Culture - Economy And Ethnicity
In all regions, the economy was based on fishing and the hunt of land animals and seals, as well as gathering of plants. The culture is m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - 20th Century
Although its army mobilised when World War I broke out in August 1914, the Netherlands remained a neutral country. The German invasion of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Roman Era
After Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, he conquered Belgium and The Netherlands around the year 58 BC, which made it the northern border of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Batavian Republic And French Rule
Against this background it is less surprising that, after the French Revolution, when Napoleon invaded and occupied the Netherlands in 17...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Västergötland: Encyclopedia Ii - Västergötland - Culture
Västergötland - Tongue. In Västergötland the Götaland dialect of Swedish is spoken. The dialect has several varieties like the one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neolithic Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Neolithic Europe - Origins
Archeologists believe that food-producing societies first emerged in the Levantine region of southwest Asia in the early Holocene, and de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Substrate Hypothesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Substrate Hypothesis - Controversy
Many of Hawkins's purported non-etymologies are controversial. One obvious way to refute the Germanic substrate hypothesis is to find Ind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Substrate Hypothesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Substrate Hypothesis - Non-indo-european Influence
The Germanic substrate hypothesis attempts to explain these features as a result of creolization with a non-Indo-European language. Writi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Beaker Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Beaker Culture - Origin
The Beaker culture apparently derives from early Corded Ware culture elements, with the Netherlands/Rhineland region as probably the most...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Pre-history Era
The Netherlands have been inhabited since the last ice age; the oldest remnants that have been found are a hundred thousand years old. Du...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neolithic Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Neolithic Europe - Neolithic Languages
How many Neolithic languages existed is not known, nor whether the ancient names of peoples believed, in ancient times or now, to have de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alvastra Pile-dwelling: Encyclopedia Ii - Alvastra Pile-dwelling - Early Use As A Cult Centre
The pile dwelling was only inhabited during certain summer months. It was the tribe's or the clan's social centre where they gathered for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neolithic Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Neolithic Europe - Competing Theories
Few details of these cultures are widely agreed upon, and even the date of the Indo-European arrival in Old Europe is questioned, whether...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Västergötland: Encyclopedia Ii - Västergötland - Geography
The southern and eastern part of the province is dominated by hills, belonging to the southern Swedish highlands. The province north and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Västergötland: Encyclopedia Ii - Västergötland - Counties
Provinces serve no administrative function in Sweden today. Instead, that function is served by Counties of Sweden. Currently Västergöt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Funnelbeaker Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Funnelbeaker Culture - Objects
The culture is named for its characteristic ceramics, beakers and amphorae with funnel-shaped tops, which were probably used for drinking...   » Read the article