Not to be confused with Pit–Comb Ware culture in northeast Europe.
Pitted Ware culture
Geographical range
Southern Scandinavia
Period
Mesolithic, Neolithic
Dates
circa 3500 BCE – circa 2300 BCE
Preceded by
Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers
Followed by
Battle Axe culture, Nordic Bronze Age
The Pitted Ware culture (c. 3500 BC–c. 2300 BC) was a hunter-gatherer culture in southern Scandinavia, mainly along the coasts of Svealand, Götaland, Åland, north-eastern Denmark and southern Norway. Despite its Mesolithic economy, it is by convention classed as Neolithic, since it falls within the period in which farming reached Scandinavia. The Pitted Ware people were largely maritime hunters, and were engaged in lively trade with both the agricultural communities of the Scandinavian interior and other hunter-gatherers of the Baltic Sea.[1]
The people of the Pitted Ware culture were a genetically homogeneous and distinct population descended from earlier Scandinavian Hunter-Gatherers (SHGs).[1] The culture emerged in east-central Sweden around 3,500 BC, gradually replacing the Funnelbeaker culture throughout the coastal areas of southern Scandinavia. It subsequently co-existed with the Funnelbeaker culture for several centuries.[1]
From about 2,800 BC, the Pitted Ware culture co-existed with the Battle Axe culture, which was the successor of the Funnelbeaker culture in southern Scandinavia.[2][a] By 2,300 BC, the Pitted Ware culture had been absorbed by the Battle Axe culture. The subsequent Nordic Bronze Age represents a fusion of elements from the Pitted Ware culture and the Battle Axe culture.[2] Modern Scandinavians, unlike the Sami,[b] display partial genetic origins from the Pitted Ware people.[4]
^ abcVanhanen 2019.
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^Mittnik 2018.
^Malmström 2015.
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