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Denmark SouthScandinavia EN
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Sweden N
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Medieval
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Ukraine CernavodaI Kartal C
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Chalcolithic
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Sweden N
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Bronze Age
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Ukraine Eneolithic Usatove Majaky C
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Late Copper Age
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Sweden N
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Ukraine Eneolithic Usatove Usatove-BolsojKujalnik C
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Hungary MN AVK
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Middle Neolithic
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Sweden N
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Netherlands LNA CordedWare Vlaardingen
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Czech Bohemia Jordanow N
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France Occitanie Gard AvendelaBoucle N
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Romania C Bodrogkeresztur
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Copper Age
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Czech C Baalberge
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Copper Age
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Ukraine VertebaCave MLTrypillia
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Portugal EN Cardial
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Sweden N
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Romania PietreleMaguraGorgana Gumelnita C
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Germany MN
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Middle Neolithic
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Netherlands EN LateMesolithic Swifterbant o
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Sweden TRB MN
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Middle Neolithic
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Spain C
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Copper Age
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Netherlands EN LateMesolithic Swifterbant
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Czech LN
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Late Neolithic
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Germany Blatterhohle MN
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Middle Neolithic
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Germany EN LBK
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Early Neolithic
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Romania Curatesti Boian LN Eneolithic
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Morocco KTG EN
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Poland N
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Hungary LateC Protoboleraz
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28.03 Average distance
Copper Age
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Romania Iclod Iclod LN Eneolithic
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28.18 Average distance
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France MN
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Middle Neolithic
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Scotland N
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28.28 Average distance
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Czech C
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Copper Age
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Poland Bronocice LublinVolhynian Eneolithic
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Czech Bohemia FunnelBeaker N
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Danish Early Neolithic life (4000–3300 BCE) reflects the establishment and consolidation of farming communities in Denmark. Across the period, material culture and settlement evidence show how domestic production expanded in a landscape where earlier hunter-gatherer traditions had already shaped settlement choices.
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In northern Sweden, medieval estates and manorial farms (frälsegårdar) shaped local landscapes between the 12th and 15th centuries. Archaeology and environmental evidence highlight how households organized land use, production, and consumption in a Christianizing regional economy.
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The Cernavoda I–Kartal horizon belongs to Chalcolithic communities in the Lower Danube region. It represents farming-and-herding lifeways using crafted ceramics and regional exchange networks during a time of growing complexity.
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The Hjelmars Rör Culture marks a Bronze Age phase in Sweden (1800–1100 BCE) within the Nordic Bronze Age framework. Archaeological patterns indicate continued development of Bronze Age lifeways, craft traditions, and social practices as communities adapted their settlement and resource use across varied landscapes.
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The Usatove culture represents Late Copper Age communities in Ukraine (c. 3500–3000 BCE), living amid steppe-and-forest-steppe ecologies and expressing shared identities through recognizable ceramic and settlement practices.
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From 1000 to 1300 CE in northern Sweden, *Landbo* (“farm-dweller”) communities reflect a medieval rural landscape organized around farmsteads and local resource control. This era lies in the broader Norse world, when settled agriculture and regional structures increasingly shaped everyday life and the archaeological record.
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The Usatove Culture (3500–3000 BCE) in Ukraine belongs to the Late Copper Age, when communities across steppe and forest-steppe environments expressed shared identities through consistent ceramic and craft traditions.
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In Hungary’s Middle Neolithic (about 5500–5000 BCE), the **Alföld Linear Pottery** tradition reflects settled farming villages within the broader European Neolithic. Archaeological remains—especially ceramics and stone toolkits—show durable household practices and regional styles across the Carpathian Basin.
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Sweden’s broad pre-Roman centuries before the Common Era—captured here by the **Sweden N** phase—reflect communities operating within a forested, water-rich environment. Archaeological evidence indicates sustained local lifeways and evolving material traditions that culminated in the transition toward the Roman period.
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In the western Netherlands during the later Neolithic, communities associated with the Vlaardingen tradition lived in a low, watery landscape of river channels and coastal wetlands. Their material culture is notable for corded-ware pottery styles and for the everyday toolkits that supported mixed subsistence in these challenging environments.
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The **Jordanow** culture in Bohemia belongs to the Central European Neolithic, a period when farming settlements became established across temperate landscapes. Archaeological recognition comes largely from pottery traditions and lithic toolkits that reflect shared Neolithic practice and regional variation.
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In southern France, communities during the later Neolithic organized their lives around farming and increasingly visible monument landscapes. The “Occitanie–Gard–AvendelaBoucle” phase highlights how local traditions expressed social identity through durable material culture and mortuary practice.
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Around **4000–3600 BCE**, communities associated with the **Bodrogkeresztur** culture occupied parts of the Carpathian Basin, including areas of **Hungary**. In a landscape of river systems and productive soils, agriculture and household craft were central, with distinctive ceramics and material traditions reflecting shared cultural practice.
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In the early fourth millennium BCE, the Baalberge Culture flourished across parts of Central Europe, including what is now the Czech Republic. Communities lived in a transforming Chalcolithic landscape where farming, craft production, and new metal-working practices gradually took deeper root.
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Middle to Late Trypillia Culture in the Verteba Cave area (c. 4000–3000 BCE) belongs to the Copper Age traditions of the Cucuteni–Trypillian complex. Archaeology from cave and nearby contexts helps illuminate ceramic styles, craft activities, and changing settlement practices during a long Chalcolithic horizon.
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Early Neolithic communities in the *Western Mediterranean* of Iberia produced the distinctive *Cardial Ware* pottery style between about 6400 and 5500 BCE. This horizon reflects the spread of farming lifeways and coastal-connected exchange within the early Neolithic world.
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In Sweden’s Atlantic-influenced landscapes, communities associated with the *Frälsegården* culture sustained lifeways grounded in hunting, fishing, and the seasonal use of coastal and inland resources. This Mesolithic period saw stable patterns of mobility and shared technological traditions without farming as the dominant subsistence base.
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The Gumelnița Culture in the Lower Danube region marks a major Chalcolithic farming horizon with densely connected communities. Its material record emphasizes craft production and distinctive ceramic styles during a period of growing social complexity.
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Middle Neolithic Germany (4000–3000 BCE) saw established farming communities expand across varied landscapes, with settlement patterns tied to arable soils and waterways. Material culture—especially pottery styles—reflects connections to broader Central European Neolithic traditions such as the Funnel Beaker phenomenon.
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This Late Mesolithic phase (Swifterbant “o”) represents continued foraging lifeways in the Dutch lowlands, emphasizing repeated use of wetland and riverine landscapes. Archaeological patterns point to task-oriented tool production and seasonal subsistence.
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During 4000–2800 BCE, Funnel Beaker traditions spread in parts of Sweden, linking communities to wider Neolithic networks. Archaeology emphasizes changes associated with farming, settlement organization, and distinctive ceramic forms within the broader TRB complex framework.
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In Chalcolithic Iberia, communities associated with the **Los Millares** tradition developed settled farming and craft production across parts of Spain. From about 3200–2200 BCE, archaeological evidence points to growing social complexity, intensified land use, and distinctive styles of material culture.
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The Swifterbant horizon in the Late Mesolithic reflects forager communities in the Netherlands making repeated use of wetland-rich landscapes. Their material culture and site patterns highlight fishing and hunting strategies alongside increasing emphasis on long-term place use.
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In the Late Neolithic of the Czech Republic, communities built settled agricultural lifeways across fertile basins and river valleys while also using uplands and forests for seasonal and subsistence needs. Archaeology highlights the Lengyel Culture’s distinctive pottery and tells, especially through cemeteries and settlement finds that reflect long-standing regional traditions and connections.
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In the mid-4th to early 3rd millennium BCE, the Blatterhohle phase reflects Middle Neolithic farming communities in Germany associated with Linear Pottery traditions. Archaeology emphasizes domestic lifeways, long-term settlement use, and characteristic ceramic and tool technologies.
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Early Neolithic Linear Pottery Culture in Germany (c. 5500–4500 BCE) marks the spread of farming lifeways into much of central Europe. Communities cultivated fields, domesticated animals, and built settled village life, leaving a recognizable archaeological signature in distinctive pottery and domestic production.
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In the Lower Danube corridor, the Boian Culture reflects long-lived Neolithic farming communities shaped by riverine landscapes and fertile floodplains. Between roughly 5300 and 4500 BCE, settlements produced a distinctive suite of pottery, figurines, and everyday tools that connect the region to wider Balkan and Danubian traditions.
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The Moroccan Kaf Taht el-Ghar Early Neolithic (c. 5500–4500 BCE) reflects early farming and ceramic traditions in Northern Morocco. This period shows how Neolithic practices became locally expressed through pottery styles and domestic technologies suited to varied regional ecologies.
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Neolithic Poland represents the spread and local establishment of farming and village life in the Polish lands. Communities cultivated crops, herded animals, and developed household crafts that left a durable archaeological signature in ceramics, stone tools, and settlement remains.
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Late Copper Age developments in Hungary culminated in material patterns associated with the Proto-Boleráz horizon. Situated within broader Baden Complex contexts, these assemblages reflect changing local practices in ceramics, settlement organization, and later exchange networks across the 4th millennium BCE.
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The Iclod Culture (5300–4900 BCE) represents a Neolithic farming tradition in Transylvania. It belongs to the Transylvanian Neolithic Complex, with archaeologists identifying it through characteristic ceramic and settlement patterns consistent with early Danubian agricultural lifeways.
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In France during the Middle Neolithic, farming communities expanded and stabilized in many parts of the country, building long-term settlement patterns tied to agriculture and animal husbandry. Their material culture—ceramics, polished stone tools, and distinctive regional styles—shows both local developments and participation in broader Neolithic networks.
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Scottish Neolithic (4000–2200 BCE) marks the long-term establishment of farming communities in a variety of habitats across Scotland. Monumental architecture and everyday pottery, along with polished stone tools and new farming technologies, show how people reorganized landscapes and built enduring social identities.
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The Chalcolithic in the Czech Republic reflects communities experimenting with copper use alongside established Neolithic farming. Over several centuries, settlement life, craft production, and exchange networks contributed to regional differences, including traditions associated with the Řivnáč culture.
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The Lublin-Volhynian Culture represents a Neolithic-to-Eneolithic farming tradition in eastern Poland and nearby regions during the late 5th to early 4th millennium BCE. Its communities practiced settled agriculture and crafted distinctive pottery while living in landscapes marked by rivers, wetlands, and productive loess soils.
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The Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture represents an earlier 5th-to-4th millennium BCE farming horizon in Bohemia, associated with distinctive ceramic forms. In the Czech Republic, it reflects how communities adapted farming practices to Central European river landscapes well before later Chalcolithic transformations.
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