Centered on Silesia in Poland, eastern Germany, and the northern Czech Republic, it overlaps with the Lengyel horizon to the south and the Rössen culture to the west.

Much of the Musical Note[clarification needed] pottery features incised zig-zag bands going around the pot, with punctures at the line segment junctions.

Where the Musical Note pottery expanded east over the Bug River, the STK moved down the Vistula and Elbe.

The homes of the STK people show a slight modification that became a major feature of later cultures: one end of the long house was made shorter than the other to achieve a trapezoidal shape.

An unusual structure associated with STK has been found at Goseck, southwest of Berlin in Saxony-Anhalt : a large, double concentric ring of post holes pierced by gates and surrounded by a circular ditch.