Corded Ware

Corded Ware culture

Geographical range	Europe
Period	Chalcolithic Europe
Dates	circa 2900 BCE – circa 2350 BCE
Major sites	Bronocice
Preceded by	Narva culture, Funnelbeaker culture, Globular Amphora culture
Followed by	Beaker culture, Andronovo culture (derived from Corded Ware culture)

Chalcolithic Eneolithic, Aeneolithic or Copper Age This box:
↑ Stone Age ↑ Neolithic
Near East Ghassulian culture, Naqada culture, Uruk period Europe Yamna culture, Corded Ware Cernavodă culture, Decea Mureşului culture, Gorneşti culture, Gumelniţa–Karanovo culture, Petreşti culture, Coțofeni culture Remedello culture, Gaudo culture, Monte Claro culture India Ahar-Banas culture, Jorwe China Mesoamerica
Metallurgy, Wheel, Domestication of the horse,
↓ Bronze Age

The Corded Ware culture (German: Schnurkeramik; French: ceramique cordée; Dutch: touwbekercultuur) comprises a broad Indo-European archaeological horizon of Europe between c. 2900 BCE – circa 2350 BCE, thus from the late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age. Corded Ware culture encompassed a vast area, from the Rhine on the west to the Volga in the east, occupying parts of Northern Europe, Central Europe and Eastern Europe.

The Corded Ware was genetically strongly related to the Yamnaya culture, suggesting that the Corded Ware culture originated from migrations from the Eurasiatic steppes. The Corded Ware culture may have disseminated the Proto-Germanic and Proto-Balto-Slavic Indo-European languages. The Corded Ware Culture also shows genetic affinity with the later Sintashta culture, where the proto-Indo-Iranian language originated.