The Kiukainen culture was the last

Stone Age The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 4,000 BC and 2,000 BC, with t ...

culture of the southwestern coast of

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

, dating to 2400–1500/1300 BC. Its material culture combined elements from Pit–Comb Ware and

Corded Ware The Corded Ware culture comprises a broad archaeological horizon of Europe between ca. 3000 BC – 2350 BC, thus from the late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and ending in the early Bronze Age. Corded Ware culture encompassed a va ...

cultures. The area of Kiukainen culture ranged from the shore of

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. Kiukainen culture is named after the

Kiukainen Kiukainen ( sv, Kiukais) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Eura on 1 January 2009. It is located in the Satakunta region. The municipality had a population of 3,408 (2003) and covered an area of 149.88 km² of w ...

municipality where the Finnish archaeologist Matti Kauppinen found the first artefacts.

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* Archaeological cultures in Finland History of Finland Stone Age Europe {{finland-stub