Linear Pottery culture

The Linear Pottery culture, or LBK culture, was a Neolithic civilization that flourished in Europe around the 5th millennium BCE. Expanding north and west of the Danube River, these people were primarily farmers who practiced shifting cultivation on loess soils. They cultivated crops like emmer wheat and barley and raised domestic animals, especially cattle.1

The culture is named for its distinctive pottery, decorated with parallel lines in spiral or meander patterns. Their common tools included polished stone adzes, and they lived in large rectangular houses organized into village communities.1