Central Europe's first farming culture, spreading rapidly along the Rhine, Elbe and Danube with its distinctive incised 'linear' pottery decoration.
Fragmented after c. 4500 BC into regional successor groups (Rössen culture, Stroke-ornamented ware/Stichbandkeramik, Lengyel culture) as the uniform LBK material culture broke down.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) — the shape you scrub through changes in 5500 BC · 4999 BC.
Structural/contextual study of Central European Neolithic societies including LBK.
Broad synthesis of LBK and its Central European successors.
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