Time Machine: The Corded Ware Culture in Estonia

VINCENT TEETSOV

Wind back to 2900 BCE. At this time, Indigenous people from the coast of present-day Newfoundland all the way to the northeast United States were operating a thriving system of fishing and hunting of mammals at sea, along with having created a currency for transactions.

In Mesopotamia, walls were being built for war. The Harappan Civilization, which created one of the earliest metropolises in history, was growing in India at this time, too.

As described in a 2017 issue of the journal Current Biology, while all of this was happening nearly 5,000 years ago, the first indications of crop cultivation had appeared in Estonia.

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Corded Ware pottery fragments.

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