Page "History of Finland" Paragraph 29

From 3200 BCE onwards, either immigrants or a strong cultural influence from south of the Gulf of Finland settled in Southwestern Finland.

This culture was a part of the European Battle Axe cultures, which have often been associated with the movement of the Indo-European speakers.

The Battle-Axe-or Cord Ceramic-culture seems to have practiced agriculture and animal husbandry outside of Finland, but the earliest confirmed traces of agriculture in Finland date later, approximately to the 2nd millennium BCE.

Further inland, the societies retained their hunting-gathering lifestyles for the time being.