Broad Indo-European linguistic and cultural grouping ancestral to the Lithuanians, Latvians, and the extinct Old Prussians, spread across the southeastern Baltic hinterland from the Bronze Age onward, organized in scattered tribal societies rather than states.
No single terminal event; gradually differentiates into the numerous specifically-named medieval Baltic tribes and eventually the historical states of Lithuania (already tracked from its later medieval grand duchy) and the crusader-era conquests of Latvia/Prussia.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Balts (Baltic peoples, pre-state) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 BC · 150 BC · 750.
A history of the Baltic lands and their peoples from earliest times.