!!!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.


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