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Interesting, do you know the age and location?
Silesian, I think now as I have for the last ten years that much of what has been written on forums about Corded Ware Culture is a transposition of the culture of the eastern and much later mobile populations of the steppe, people with metallurgy, onto Corded Ware. Much of it is just anachronistic for Corded Ware.
Corded Ware had stone axes and flint knives, no superior bronze weapons, not even much, if any, copper. Horse remains are rare and I don't remember if any paper even reports remains of the carts. I think a lot of this is conjecture from words in the language. Most burials just have beakers in them, and some stone tools and axes, but not even horse bones. If you search using academia.edu you'll find lots of papers like the following:
See:
https://www.academia.edu/20286495/S..._in_the_Carpathian_foothill_and_upland_region
Some pots, probably made by local women admitted into the group, and stone axes, and flint arrowheads. That's it.
This is Kristiansen. It's all very general. Lots of talk about wagons and loading belongings on pack animals but no links to actual finds of the wagons. Being constructed of wood they may have rotted away, so there is that to consider.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/12d8/4fc4d5456f288ae5e72dc1decdc63319fd50.pd
Diet and mobility in Corded Ware:
Also, the substantial variation present at individual, local and regional levels is highlighted by this study. Such variability excludes any simplistic interpretation of CW economy as dominated by any single mode of subsistence. In combination with recent archaeological information for CW settlement and other studies of diet and mobility for this period, we would conclude that the CW people of southern Germany specifically, and perhaps Central Europe as a whole, continued largely in an agricultural way of life.
Although mobility was relatively high, it was not greatly different from earlier groups of farmers such as the Linearbandkeramik and the contemporary Bell Beaker folk of Western Europe in general and southern Germany in particular [69, 90, 93].
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155083
The most mobile members of their society were the women.
There are more detailed and nuanced discussions of the the changes which took place over the 1000 years after their appearance, including the adoption of crop cultivation, which never really ceased. Sorry, I didn't save the links to any of those papers.
As to horses, all the paper says is that "At the Wattendorf settlement in NE Bavaria, for instance, cattle were prominent among the faunal remains, but sheep, goats, pigs and horses were also found. "
It doesn't seem to me that it's likely that most of the wagons were pulled by horses.
Imo, there was a Neolithic collapse, either from a changing climate, or destruction of the soil by over cultivation, or both, then plague. The very wet period on deforested lands made for lots of grass and the incoming people from the steppe with their herds were thus able to survive better. I also have a hunch they had more immunity to the plague. They weren't cowboys of the steppe wielding bronze swords from horseback. That was all fantasy imo.
All of that stuff is much later.