Around 2950 BC there was a quick and smooth transition from the Funnelbeaker farming culture to the pan-European Corded Ware pastoralist culture.
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This Corded Ware grave in the centre also shows that the main tomb must have remained well known even 1000 years after its construction.
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The Corded Ware was genetically strongly related to the Yamnaya culture, suggesting that the Corded Ware culture originated from migrations from the Eurasiatic steppes.
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The Corded Ware was genetically strongly related to the Yamnaya culture, suggesting that the Corded Ware culture originated from migrations from the Eurasiatic steppes.
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The degree to which cultural change generally represents immigration were matter of debate, and such debate had figured strongly in discussions of Corded Ware.
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The Bell Beaker domestic ware of Southern Germany are not as closely related to the Corded Ware as would be indicated by their burial rites.
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Prior to Yamnaya population of the steppes north of the Black Sea, there was a stark division between archaeologists regarding the origins of Corded Ware.
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In favour of the first view was the fact that Corded Ware coincides considerably with the earlier north-central European Funnelbeaker culture ( TRB ).
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Such an arrangement is rather derivative of Corded Ware traditions although, instead of'battle-axes', Bell Beaker individuals used copper daggers.
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It found that individuals from the Central European Corded Ware culture ( 3rd millennium BCE ) were genetically closely related to individuals from the Yamnaya culture.