Archaeological culture · c. 4100–2800 BCE
Funnelbeaker culture (TRB)
The Funnelbeaker culture brought farming to northern Europe, from the Netherlands across northern Germany and Poland to Denmark and southern Sweden. It formed where incoming farmers met local hunter-gatherers.
Its people built the region's first big stone tombs (dolmens and passage graves), where funnel-necked beakers and amphorae were left. Some of the earliest evidence of wheeled carts in Europe comes from this culture's area.
See Funnelbeaker culture (TRB) on the map in 4100 BCE
- On the map
- 4100–2800 BCE
How we know
No writing existed; it is named after its funnel-necked pots and dated by radiocarbon.