Named after a Bohemian location, this cultural province situated in the Early Bronze Age spans the period 2300-1500BC and from it Czechian kernel it expended over Slowakia, Poland, Eastern Germany till the eastern flanks of Niedersachsen.
Carl Schuchardt in Vorgeschichte von Deutschland points to the fact that its wares underwent a potpourri of influences with clear indications of wandering elements from north and central Germany, while Danubians and Pile Dwellers might have left some marks too.
The strongest ties though are made with the Corded Ware in Schlesien and on the Oder: the obsequies of delivering the body in a loam-pit with perpedicular shafts, a stone heap layed out in a sharp-edged rectangular "window" surrounding the body,the body itself in a protacted position on some distance of the window, perhaps it rested in a coffin covered up under the stone mass. Also the schlauchartige Henkelkrügen and Blumentopfbechern hint on Corded Ware connection, although the decoration is intensified.
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