Kiukainen culture

The Kiukainen culture was the last Stone Age culture of the southwestern coast of Finland, dating to 2400–1500/1300 BC.^[1] Its material culture combined elements from Pit–Comb Ware and Corded Ware cultures.^[2] The area of Kiukainen culture ranged from the shore of Kvarken to Vyborg Bay.^[3] Kiukainen culture is named after the Kiukainen municipality where the Finnish archaeologist Matti Kauppinen found the first artifacts .^[4]

References

1. Cerezo-Román, Jessica; Williams, Howard; Wessman, Anna (2017-04-27). Cremation and the Archaeology of Death. Oxford University Press. pp. 206–. ISBN 9780198798118. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
2. "Kiukaisten kulttuuri". National Museum of Finland. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
3. "Kiukaisten keramiikka". University of Helsinki. 25 March 1999. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
4. Räty, Jouko (1988). "Arkeologisen kokoelman alku Satakunnan Museossa". Muinaistutkija (in Finnish) (3). The Archaeological Society of Finland: 12. Retrieved 8 March 2020.

Additional sources

• Zvelebil, Marek (2009-06-18). Hunters in Transition: Mesolithic Societies of Temperate Eurasia and Their Transition to Farming. Cambridge University Press. pp. 83–. ISBN 9780521109574. Retrieved 17 October 2017.