Published: 2021-03-10

The Linear Pottery culture settlement in the upland zone between the Vistula and Bug Rivers – current state and perspectives of research

Marcin Szeliga
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/73.2021.1.2590

Abstract

There are 171 sites known from the interfluvial of the Vistula and Bug Rivers that attest to settling it between the Gniechowice and early Želiezovce phases of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK). The earliest finds concentrate only in the south-eastern part of this area, mainly in the Hrubieszów Basin. The intensification of settlement occurred in the music-note phase, along with the colonisation of the whole Lublin region and the emergence of the settlement oecumene proper. It mainly encompassed the loess zones and was a network of clusters located along small and medium rivers. Their development is corroborated, e.g., by traces of far-reaching, multidirectional contacts. The current state of research limits the scope of interpretations concerning the development of individual settlement clusters (especially the chronology and scope of the development of the LBK and the character and scale of colonisation and economic activity). Field research needs to be intensified to obtain new archaeological and environmental data on particular microregions.

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Early Neolithic, LBK, Lublin Region, interfluvial zone of the Vistula and Bug rivers, uplands, settlement

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Szeliga, M. (2021). The Linear Pottery culture settlement in the upland zone between the Vistula and Bug Rivers – current state and perspectives of research. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 73(1). https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/73.2021.1.2590

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