Definition: Part of the Danubian period (3500-1700 BC) of Baltic states prehistory; the people associated with the Globular amphora culture built small rectangular houses and hill forts; they also domesticated horses. Ceramics were (surprise!) globular amphorae, decorated with cord-impressions and triangles.

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Scandinavian Archaeology
Archaeological studies and regions of the far north countries of Scandinavia.

Neolithic Archaeology
The period in the Old World where humans first learned to tend and eventually plant crops is known as the Neolithic period.

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