Editing History of Lithuania (section)

===Early settlement===
[[File:Kernave_mounds_20200926.jpg|thumb|[[Kernavė Mounds]]]]
The first humans arrived on the territory of modern Lithuania in the second half of the 10th millennium BC after the glaciers receded at the end of the [[last glacial period]].<ref name=kudirka13/> They were traveling hunters and did not form stable settlements. According to the historian [[Marija Gimbutas]], these people came from two directions: the [[Jutland]] Peninsula and from present-day [[Poland]]. They brought two different cultures, as evidenced by the tools they used.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} The following centuries are characterised by the "Baltic [[Magdalenian]]" and the [[Swiderian culture]].{{sfn|Rimantienė|1994|pp=27-47}} In the 8th millennium BC, the climate became much warmer, and forests developed. The inhabitants of what is now Lithuania then traveled less and engaged in local hunting, gathering and fresh-water fishing. This transition is often connected with the cultural transition from [[Paleolithic]] to [[Mesolithic]].{{sfn|Rimantienė|1994|pp=48-68}} During the 5th millennium BC, the [[Neolithic]] started and different forms of crafts and artistic production started to develop. Hunting, however, stayed the main form of food procurement; agriculture developed only slowly and did not emerge until the 3rd millennium BC.{{sfn|Rimantienė|1994|pp=69-102}} During the Neolithic, first forms of interregional trade began, especially with amber.{{sfn|Rimantienė|1994|p=127}} The dwellings became more sophisticated in order to shelter larger families.

Speakers of North-Western [[Proto-Indo-Europeans|Indo-European]] might have arrived with the [[Corded Ware culture]] around 3200/3100 BC.<ref>CARPELAN, C.& PARPOLA, ASKO: Emergence, contacts and dispersal of Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan in archaeological perspective. In: Carpelan, Christian; Parpola, Asko; Koskikallio, Petteri (eds.), EARLY CONTACTS BETWEEN URALIC AND INDO-EUROPEAN: LINGUISTIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seura, Helsinki, Finland, 2001.</ref>