Kiukainen culture

The Kiukainen culture was the last Stone Age culture of the southwestern coast of Finland, dating to 2400–1500/1300 BC.{{cite book|last1=Cerezo-Román|first1=Jessica|last2=Williams|first2=Howard|last3=Wessman|first3=Anna|title=Cremation and the Archaeology of Death|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M92PDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA206|access-date=17 October 2017|date=2017-04-27|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198798118|pages=206–}} Its material culture combined elements from Pit–Comb Ware and Corded Ware cultures.{{cite news|title=Kiukaisten kulttuuri|url=http://www.kansallismuseo.fi/fi/kansallismuseo/opetus/opetuspaketit/esihistoria/tietoa/kivikausi/9|access-date=17 October 2017|publisher=National Museum of Finland}} The area of Kiukainen culture ranged from the shore of Kvarken to Vyborg Bay.{{cite news|title=Kiukaisten keramiikka|url=http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/arla/keram/kiukais.html|access-date=17 October 2017|date=25 March 1999|publisher=University of Helsinki}} Kiukainen culture is named after the Kiukainen municipality where the Finnish archaeologist Matti Kauppinen found the first artifacts .{{cite journal |last=Räty |first=Jouko |title=Arkeologisen kokoelman alku Satakunnan Museossa |url=https://www.academia.edu/597748/_Ahvola_1918_Archaeological_Reconnaissance_of_a_Finnish_Civil_War_Battlefield_2009_ |journal= Muinaistutkija | publisher = The Archaeological Society of Finland | date = 1988 |issue=3 |pages=12 |access-date=8 March 2020 | lang=fi}}