A vast forager-fisher pottery horizon of north-eastern Europe (c. 4200–2000 BC), stretching from Arctic Norway and the Gulf of Bothnia across Finland and the eastern Baltic to Lake Onega — named for the comb-stamped decoration of its pots, spread by hunter-gatherers rather than farmers.
The Comb Ceramic horizon gave way from the later 3rd millennium BC as Corded Ware and, in the north, Battle Axe and later Bronze Age traditions spread into the region; its makers are widely linked to early Uralic-speaking populations.
A standard collection on the forager-to-Neolithic transition of the Baltic and north-east Europe, the Comb Ware world.