Neolithic Period The beginning of the Neolithic Period is marked by the ceramics of the Narva culture, and appear in Estonia at the beginning of the 5th millennium. The oldest finds date from around 4900 BC. The first pottery was made of thick clay mixed with pebbles, shells or plants. The Narva-type ceramics are found throughout almost the entire Estonian coastal region and on the islands. The stone and bone tools of the era have a notable similarity with the artifacts of the Kunda culture. thumb|left|Comb Ceramic pottery at the Estonian History Museum Around the beginning of 4th millennium BC Comb Ceramic culture arrived in Estonia. Until the early 1980s the arrival of Balto-Finnic peoples, the ancestors of the Estonians, Finns, and Livonians, on the shores of the Baltic Sea was associated with the Comb Ceramic Culture. However, such a linking of archaeologically defined cultural entities with linguistic ones cannot be proven, and it has been suggested that the increase of settlement finds in the period is more likely to have been associated with an economic boom related to the warming of climate. Some researchers have even argued that a Uralic language may have been spoken in Estonia and Finland since the end of the last glaciation. thumb|Corded Ware culture pottery and stone axes, at the EHM The burial customs of the comb pottery people included additions of figures of animals, birds, snakes and men carved from bone and amber. Antiquities from comb pottery culture are found from northern Finland to eastern Prussia.
Neolithic Period The beginning of the Neolithic Period is marked by the ceramics of the Narva culture and appear in Estonia at the beginning of the 5th millennium The oldest finds date from around 4900 BC The first pottery was made of thick clay mixed with pebbles shells or plants The Narva-type ceramics are found throughout almost the entire Estonian coastal region and on the islands The stone and bone tools of the era have a notable similarity with the artifacts of the Kunda culture thumb|left|Comb Ceramic pottery at the Estonian History Museum Around the beginning of 4th millennium BC Comb Ceramic culture arrived in Estonia Until the early 1980s the arrival of Balto-Finnic peoples the ancestors of the Estonians Finns and Livonians on the shores of the Baltic Sea was associated with the Comb Ceramic Culture However such a linking of archaeologically defined cultural entities with linguistic ones cannot be proven and it has been suggested that the increase of settlement finds in the period is more likely to have been associated with an economic boom related to the warming of climate Some researchers have even argued that a Uralic language may have been spoken in Estonia and Finland since the end of the last glaciation thumb|Corded Ware culture pottery and stone axes at the EHM The burial customs of the comb pottery people included additions of figures of animals birds snakes and men carved from bone and amber Antiquities from comb pottery culture are found from northern Finland to eastern Prussia