Brushed Pottery culture

[1] The oldest settlements considered to be a part of Early Brushed Pottery culture are dated to 1300-1100 BC, and are found along the rivers Neris and Šventoji.

[5] The most recognizable feature of the culture are hillforts, which were first established circa 1000 BC.

110 hillforts belonging to Brushed Pottery culture have been found in Eastern Lithuania.

Extensive findings of stone axes and bones of sheep, pigs, cattle as well as hunted animals in hillfort excavations show that Brushed Pottery peoples engaged in a mix of hunting-gathering and animal husbandry, with less focus on agriculture.

Some Brushed Pottery hillforts show signs of intensive metallurgy, such as numerous clay casting molds.

Brushed Pottery pot from Dievukalns, Lielvarde, Latvia, 1st century BC
Baltic groups during the Early Iron Age (600–400 BC and later) based on archaeological finds, according to Gimbutas 1963. [ 2 ]
The Sembian-Notangian group
The west Masurian group, probably connected with the later Prussian Galindians
The east Masurian or Sudovian group (Jatvingian) group
The lower Neman and western Latvian group connected with the early Curonians (Kurshians)
The Brushed Pottery group ancestral to Lithuanians, Selians, Lettigallians and Semigallians
The 'Milograd' group of the 7th–6th centuries BCE.
The Plain Pottery culture to be identified with the easternmost Balts
The 'Face-urn' group of Pomerania and lower Vistula
Expansion area of the 'Bell-grave' group, successor of the 'Face-urn' group, in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE