One of the premises of this conference is that the immigration of Indo-European speaking populations caused social change with i.a. an increased focus on military and political alliances. Are we to decide whether this is a true and fair presentation, we will have to make sure that we know how the preceding and well-established Neolithic societies were organized. One easily gets the impression that the emergence of the Corded Ware (Indo-European speakers) introduced a new social setting focused on male-based warriorhoods to a group of indigenous, peaceful and egalitarian farmers. However, evidence from central
European early farming societies (LBK) clearly shows that these societies were far from peaceful but could be rather warlike. In this paper, I will use South Scandinavia as a case discussing how we should conceive the social organization of the early farming societies (the Funnel Beaker culture) compared to that of the emerging Corded Ware/Single Grave society.