12 Facts About Funnelbeaker culture

Funnelbeaker culture, in short TRB or TBK was an archaeological culture in north-central Europe.

Funnelbeaker culture is named for its characteristic ceramics, beakers and amphorae with funnel-shaped tops, which were found in dolmen burials.

In southern Scandinavia it replaced the Ertebølle Funnelbeaker culture, which had maintained a Mesolithic lifestyle for about 1500 years after farming arrived in Central Europe.

The southward expansion of the Funnelbeaker culture was accompanied by a substantial increase in hunter-gatherer lineages in Central Europe.

Genetic studies suggest that Funnelbeaker women were incorporated into the Corded Ware culture through intermixing with incoming Corded Ware males, and that people of the Corded Ware culture continued to use Funnelbeaker megaliths as burial grounds.

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Funnelbeaker culture was dominated by animal husbandry of sheep, cattle, pigs and goats, but there was hunting and fishing.

The Funnelbeaker culture used copper from Silesia, especially daggers and axes.

Funnelbeaker culture was found to be a carrier of the maternal haplogroup H Funnelbeaker culture was mostly genetically similar to modern Southern Europeans, while people of the Pitted Ware culture and other hunter-gatherers examined were found to be most genetically similar to modern Northern Europeans.

Funnelbeaker culture's was closely related to people of the Linear Pottery culture, but with increased level of hunter-gatherer admixture, which is comparable to other Middle Neolithic and Chalcolithic farmers of Europe.

Slight traces of Funnelbeaker ancestry was detected among the Pitted Ware culture .

Traces of Funnelbeaker culture admixture was however detected among the Battle Axe people.

Samples from the latest phases of the Funnelbeaker culture contained higher amounts of hunter-gatherer ancestry.