# Corded Ware herders spread across the region (-2800)

URL: https://poland-history.com/timeline/-2800-corded-ware-herders-spread-across-the-region
Location: Poland

The Corded Ware culture, associated with mobile pastoralists of steppe ancestry, spread across Poland and transformed its population and burial customs. 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. 2800 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. Corded Ware herders spread across the region mattered because movements of peoples reshaped the population, languages and cultures of the lands that became Poland. 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
Corded Ware herders spread across the region mattered because movements of peoples reshaped the population, languages and cultures of the lands that became Poland.

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

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — Corded Ware culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corded_Ware_culture)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Corded Ware herders spread across the region](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Corded+Ware+herders+spread+across+the+region)
- [Wikipedia — Prehistory and protohistory of Poland (period overview)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_and_protohistory_of_Poland)