bandkeramische Kultur#

Linear Pottery Culture, the oldest culture of the Neolithic Age between 6,000/5,000 and 4,800/4,700 B.C., named after the characteristic decoration of pottery with lines forming patterns of straight lines, spirals or meanders. Decorations later showed different local variations, such as music note pottery (decoration resembling music notes) and stroke ornamented pottery (ornaments created by incision Prehistory. People of that period practised crop and stock farming. The culture spread into the Upper and Lower Austrian Alpine Fore-Land and today's Burgenland province, the most densely populated area being the loess area of the Weinviertel region. Almost complete ground plans of houses from the earliest Linear Pottery Culture period have been unearthed in Neckenmarkt (province of Burgenland), Stroegen, and Rosenburg (province of Lower Austria). A graveyard was discovered in Kleinhadersdorf near Poysdorf. Figurines resembling human beings were probably used in ceremonies.