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Corded Ware

Corded Ware proper noun: a broad archaeological horizon of Europe between c. 3000 BC – 2350 BC, characterized by pottery with cord-like impressions or ornamentation.

Proper noun

Corded Ware

  1. (attributive) A broad archaeological horizon of Europe between c. 3000 BC – 2350 BC, characterized by pottery with cord-like impressions or ornamentation.
    • A Corded Ware way of life may have been adopted in Finno-Ugrian regions by people still living a sub-Neolithic, foraging way of life, for whom the mobility of herding would have come naturally.2006, Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason, Encyclopedia of European Peoples, page 252

Questions about Corded Ware

What does Corded Ware mean?
Corded Ware means a broad archaeological horizon of Europe between c. 3000 BC – 2350 BC, characterized by pottery with cord-like impressions or ornamentation.
What part of speech is Corded Ware?
Corded Ware is a proper noun.

Words near Corded Ware in the dictionary

  1. cordebecks
  2. cordebecs
  3. cordectomies
  4. cordectomy
  5. corded
  6. Corded Ware
  7. cordel
  8. Cordele
  9. Cordelia
  10. Cordelier
  11. cordeliere

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