Rzucewo culture

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The Rzucewo culture or Haffküstenkultur ( English Rzucewo culture ) was an archaeological culture of the late Neolithic from approx. 2700 to approx. 600 BC. BC on the territory of present-day Poland , the Kaliningrad region and Lithuania .

Distribution area

The lagoon culture extended from the Gdańsk Bay along the Baltic Sea coast over the Freshness and the Curonian Lagoon to today's Šventoji in Lithuania. Lithuanian and Latvian archaeologists assume a further expansion inland to the east.

The culture is named after the place where it was found near Rzucewo (formerly Rutzau ), today part of the rural community of Puck .

Emergence

The Rzucewo culture emerged from the eastern funnel cup group, the spherical amphora culture , the cord ceramic culture and the very old Narva culture . It is a local expression of the cord ceramic culture, but appears more backward due to the integration of the Narva culture. Its most important export good is amber, which makes it an early part of northern European trade.

economy

Hunting (seals!), Fishing and raising livestock (cattle, pigs, some goats) were the basic diets. Arable farming was hardly practiced. Amber was processed (jewelry) and traded in large quantities. A large number of worked amber was found in Juodkrantė .

The houses were adapted to the coastal conditions.

Changes

From the end of the 2nd millennium BC A strong influence of the Lausitz culture is recognizable.

From approx. 600 BC The West Baltic barrow culture emerged .

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