[1] It is characterized by the practice of single burial, the deceased usually being accompanied by a battle axe, amber beads, and pottery vessels.

In Denmark, Single Grave sites are concentrated in Jylland, where its appearance is accompanied by large-scale forest clearance and an expansion of animal husbandry, particularly cattle.

[6] The term Single Grave culture was first introduced by the Danish archaeologist Andreas Peter Madsen in the late 1800s.

The Danish scholar P. V. Glob applied the observation that so-called A-axes can be placed early in the Lower Grave Period to the entire area of the Corded Ware.

[12] The JN IIIb overlaps with the beginning of the Late Neolithic (also dagger period, Early Bronze Age in Central European terminology).

Males were typically buried with battle axes, large amber discs and flint tools.

Hunting and fishing also played a role, as numerous settlement finds in Jutland, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Netherlands prove.

Such pottery is also found in other regions of the Corded Ware complex - in Central Germany, Bohemia and parts of Poland.

The A2 and A3 axes, on the other hand, are forms that occur almost exclusively in the area of the Single Grave culture; especially in Jutland, less so already in Schleswig-Holstein.

to Hübner), both very long and artistically designed battle axes (e.g. type K1) can be observed alongside very small and clumsy variants (K5).

This is further supported by the practice of integrating battle axes into multi-object hoards, which was not practised until late in the JN III.

[15] Contrary to established opinions, most battle axes are not known from burial contexts, but represent isolated finds.

[15] In a genetic study published in Nature in June 2015, the remains of a Single Grave male buried in Kyndeløse, Denmark c. 2850 BC-2500 was examined.

[19][20] Like other people of the Corded Ware horizon, he notably carried Western Steppe Herder (WSH) ancestry.

[21] A genetic study published in January 2021 examined the remains of individuals from the Single Grave culture in Gjerrild, Denmark.