The Linear Pottery culture, often known by its German name Linearbandkeramik or LBK, was the first widespread farming culture of central Europe. Its farmers spread from the Carpathian basin westward along rivers into Germany, Poland, the Czech lands and as far as the Paris Basin. They lived in villages of timber longhouses, grew wheat, barley and lentils, kept cattle, sheep and pigs, and decorated their pots with linear patterns that gave the culture its name. Ancient DNA shows that these people were descended mostly from farmers originating in Anatolia. Some sites, such as Talheim, show evidence of violence. The culture gave way to regional successors around 4900 BCE.
Before and after
- 61st century BCEThe earliest known wine is made in Georgia
- c. 5,900 BCEEruption of Crater Lake
- c. 5,700 BCEEruption of Khangar
- c. 5,680 BCEEruption of Crater Lake
- from c. 5,600s BCE to 4,900s BCELinear Pottery culture
- c. 5,550 BCEEruption of Tao-Rusyr Caldera
- c. 5,550 BCEEruption of Mashu
- from 56th century BCE to 35th century BCEUbaid period
- from 56th century BCE to 20th century BCESumer
More in Evolution & life
- about 20,000 years agoThe earliest known pottery is made in China
- from about 16,000 years ago to 8th millennium BCEEpipaleolithic
- from 10th millennium BCE to 6th millennium BCEMesolithic
- 76th century BCECats begin to live with farmers
- from c. 3,500 BCE to 2,500 BCEAfanasevo culture
- from c. 3,300 BCE to 600 BCEBronze Age
The era
This moment belongs to the Human prehistory (300,000 years ago to 3,200 BCE), the human story before writing.