The Balkans, Cradle of the danubian ANFs, is a mosaic of cultures after the end of the Massive Starcevo culture. Vinca is largely its sucessor, with LBK in the north having replaced the Körös and Cris cultures and migrating along the Carpathians back into Danubia.

Central Europe is Dominated by the massive, wide-reaching LBK culture who introduced Agriculture. Limburg and other HG groups live amongst their network and LBK is in its latest phase at this moment and is also experiencing invasions from Cardial Groups.

In poland the situation is quite unique. Post-kongomose WHG groups and Baltic-HG related Janislavice groups are surviving in the forested pockets the LBK do not settle, instead following the rivers. Hunter gatherers would survive here until as late as 4000bc

North of the steppes, the massive Dnieper Donets Cultural Complex dominates. Related closely to Janislavice and having expanded out of bulgaria. They were extremely robust phenotypically and very powerful. Primarily I2 haplogroup and contributed to Sredny Stog Indoeuropeans

In Italy the Impressed-ware evolved into Danilo, Cardial, and Red band ceramic groups. However the Padan Neolithic the Fiorano cultures have very different pottery from Impressed ware and Starcevo, which points to Impressed ware being not the only maritime ANF expansion.

Cardial groups, descended from the Impressed-ware culture diversify in France, forming Epicardial, SWEN, NACA, Pericardian and the Villenuece Culture. In armorica, hunter gatherer groups such as Retzien and Teviecien survive until the Villenueve cultures expansion there.

To the north of the massive LBK horizon hunter gatherers persist and resist the Neolithic expansion until the Funnelbeaker culture in 4000bc. Ertebolle, Swifterbant and Komornica are all ultimately descending from the Maglemosian culture.

Finland sees the beginnings of the later extremely wide-spread Comb Ceramic Complex. These finnish cultures are migrations from people of the upper-volga culture to the south and replace the earlier suomosjärvi culture which came from Poland.

Coming back to the Balkans, Karanovo remains a distinct cultural entity from the other Danubian civilizations, and a entirely new culture appears on the shores of the Black sea, likely as new migration from Anatolia.

In Ukraine the LBK-Notenkopf type is notable because it later evolves into the early Cuceteni-trypillia culture (precuceteni phase).

Full res (51mb): https://files.catbox.moe/k48ow... I highly highly emplore you to inspect the map yourself in full res since twitter compression is fucking ass nigga chungus

@VVeltkrieger consider figuring out premodern north sea coastlines:

@n00rdung I have done this for Scandinavia and other parts like the Danube and Po deltas

@VVeltkrieger Very nice, can you add some genetic data to the cultures? adna, y haplo.

@zero_nil_nought Thought about that but alot of them don't have that available

@VVeltkrieger I presume the British Isles were still inhabited at this time just not by any Neolithic cultures?

@C_U271D Yeah, seems to be indistinguishable mesolithic and Brittain is colonized by Neolithic people in 4000bc, namely the cardial branch

@VVeltkrieger could you please share the full version of this wonderful photo? i mean in good quality.

@funkarsg13 https://maptism.xyz/wp-content...

@VVeltkrieger The Azov-Dnipro culture is not on the map.

@shipshinaUA i cant find good info on it, neither the sites or its chronology, hence the region is marked as "work in progress"

@VVeltkrieger is there a higher res version xx i'd love to download and pan across the names myself

@muufans https://maptism.xyz/wp-content...

@VVeltkrieger didn't the netherlands have more ocean? and did doggerland sink into the sea by this point or nah?

@NargacugaBalls Dogger Land was already gone

@VVeltkrieger imo the Font is kind of hard to read. You could try unframed letters and also in general capital letters impede readability.

@LotNemez Check replies for a higher res version, Twitter fucked it