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This article reflects on developments in Corded Ware-related material and research in the eastern Baltic Sea area (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, north-western Russia). It builds upon a manuscript on the Corded Ware phenomenon in the eastern Baltic, completed nearly 15 years ago. Intended as the first modern review of the topic, this paper was not published at that time. Although now partially outdated due to the passage of time, it nonetheless offers a valuable overview of how the Corded Ware complex was perceived and studied in the early 2010s. Together with the supplementary commentaries appended to the original text, the article provides basic information about the Corded Ware phenomenon in the eastern Baltic and documents changes and an intensification of research on the 3rd millennium BC that occurred during the 2010s and early 2020s.
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