# Early Bronze Age Mierzanowice culture (-2300)

URL: https://poland-history.com/timeline/-2300-early-bronze-age-mierzanowice-culture
Location: Lesser Poland

The Mierzanowice culture of south-eastern Poland marks the transition to the Bronze Age, with early metal ornaments and flint mining. Within the broader Prehistoric Poland period: From the first Palaeolithic hunters to the Bronze Age, the lands between the Oder and the Vistula saw waves of migration, the arrival of farming and the growth of ever more complex communities long before any state existed. At this point in the timeline (c. 2300 BCE), the governing authority was Prehistoric communities (No single ruler). The lands of present-day Poland were inhabited by successive Palaeolithic hunters and Neolithic and Bronze Age farming communities; there was no state or single ruler. Early Bronze Age Mierzanowice culture mattered because it offers material evidence of how people lived on Polish soil long before written records, and helps date the region's earliest cultures. The event is placed here so readers can follow it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion and culture across Polish history.

## Why it matters
Early Bronze Age Mierzanowice culture mattered because it offers material evidence of how people lived on Polish soil long before written records, and helps date the region's earliest cultures.

Ruler at the time: [Prehistoric communities](https://poland-history.com/rulers/prehistoric-communities)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — Mierzanowice culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mierzanowice_culture)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Early Bronze Age Mierzanowice culture](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Early+Bronze+Age+Mierzanowice+culture)
- [Wikipedia — Prehistory and protohistory of Poland (period overview)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_and_protohistory_of_Poland)