The cultural group of the Ceramic twisted and of the combat axes is a culture Chalcolithique which extends from the Russia to the Poland, with the Suisse, north with the Scandinavia and to British Isles. It is limited in France to the the Vosges and the upstream reservoir of the the Saone.

Many specialists think that the people of twisted ceramics and those of the Kourganes (as of 4 400 av. J. - C.) would be oldest known Indo-Europeans. The warriors with the axe are attested dice in Ukraine, Moldavie, in the Balkans and the high valley of the the Danube, which they invade with three recoveries and where they mix to the populations of farmers Neolithic S, present as of, already very civilized, alive in villages or cities and manufacturing beautiful a Poterie painted.

The culture of twisted ceramics owes its name with the production of pottery decorated by impression with cords on the raw Argile (before cooking).

Their axes are out of polished stone, with central perforation. They could be imitations of certain models of copper axes.

The populations of the culture of twisted ceramics (or people Twisted or Twisted) are pastors (breeding of the horse) itinerant who bury their deaths in individual burials under Tumulus. The body of late is in contracted position.

The swing-plow and the oxes make their appearance. The Roue is used more and more (votive tanks in Hungary, disc wheels of wood in the peat bogs with the Netherlands).