Finns consisted different tribes like Karelians, Tavastians and Finns. These names came to be used of the entire country and the population at the beginning of the modern era. In the middle ages, the whole Finland was commonly called sterlandet .
Earlier settlers are of unknown descent.
This was also the time when Finnish and Hungarian lost contact with each other. Before this, the S mis and the Finns had split to constitute separate cultures. 4,500 years ago animal husbandry was introduced by Baltic immigrants. 2,000 years ago the southern and western coasts were inhabited by people in close cultural contact with Scandinavia. The inland kept the contacts to the east.