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This article covers the history of Eastern Europe from early hominids to the modern day.
Prehistory
[edit]Paleolithic
[edit]The first modern human culture in Eastern Europe and Europe in general was the Aurignacian culture, parts of which were located in the modern-day Czechia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. It is thought to have lasted from around 43,000 to 28,000 BP.[1][2]
The Szeleta Culture was a culture contemporary to that of the that of the Aurignacian culture that existed between the Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic periods in Austria, Moravia, northern Hungary and southern Poland.[3] It is dated to have existed 44,000 to 40,000 years ago when both modern humans and Neanderthals co-existed with each other. Most experts believe it to be a Neanderthal culture though this is still disputed.
In around 33,000 BP, the Gravettian culture of the Upper Paleolithic would form.[4][5] The eastern Gravettians lived in modern day Ukraine and Russia and would hunt mammoths in the East European Plain.[6][7]
The eastern Gravettian culture would be succeeded by the Epigravettian culture. The Epigravettian culture was the last Upper Paleolithic culture and existed in parts of modern day Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Russia. It is estimated to have started around 21,000 years ago and ended around 10,000 years ago.
Mesolithic and Neolithic
[edit]One of the first Mesolithic cultures in Eastern Europe is that of the Swiderian culture that last from c. 11,000 to c. 8,200 BCE in what is now Poland.
The Kunda culture of Estonia (c. 8500– c. 5000 BC) is thought to have succeeded from the Swiderian culture.
Around a thousand years or so after the start of the Kunda culture, the Elshanka culture would start. Located in the middle of the Volga river in modern day Russia, the culture formed around 7,000 BCE.[8]
The sites of the Elshanka culture are home to the oldest pottery ever discovered in Europe.[9][10] The creation of pottery would spread to other cultures in Eastern Europe such as the Dnieper–Donets culture (c. 5000-4200 BCE), which was a culture was located in Ukraine near the Black Sea, and the Narva culture (c. 5300 to 1750 BCE)[11], which was a culture located in the eastern Baltic and succeeded the Kunda culture.
Chalcolithic
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The Varna culture (c. 4550 BC – c. 4,100 BC)[12][13] was a Chalcolithic culture in northeastern Bulgaria. The main site of the Varna culture is that of the Varna Necropolis which is home to 294 graves and the oldest gold jewellery ever discovered in Europe.[14]
The culture was contemporary of and closely related to the Gumelnița culture which was a culture in modern day Romania based around the banks of the Danube river.
See also
[edit]- History of Europe
- History of the Balkans
- History of the Caucasus
- History of Russia
- History of the Soviet Union
- History of Poland
- History of Lithuania
- History of Latvia
- History of Estonia
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