The Linearbandkeramik culture (also known as Bandkeramik or Linear Pottery culture or most often LBK) is the name archaeologists have given to the earliest archaeological sites in central Europe that contain evidence of Neolithic behaviors—primarily domestication of plants and animals.
LBK people in Europe grew emmer and einkorn wheat, lentils, linseed, peas and barley, and tended cattle, sheep and goats, and a few pigs. They lived in small villages along streams with large longhouses that served as housing for both people and domestic animals, built of timber posts with wattle and daub construction.
The distinct separation of the two is suggested by the location of Neolithic farmsteads away from the locations most intensely used by local hunter-gatherers, and the fact that some isolated hunter-gatherer groups such as Swifterbant culture refrained from adopting domestication for some centuries.
This structure is another from Archeon, and it shows a reconstruction of an LBK home.
Sources and Further Information
Bramanti, B., et al. 2009 Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers. Science Express 3 September 2009
Haak, Wolfgang, et al. 2005 Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites. Science 310:1016-1018.
