Linear Band Pottery Culture in the Upper Vistula River Basin

Abstract

Last a few dozen years has witnessed a multi-aspect research on the Linear Band Pottery culture (LBK after germ. Linear Bandkeramik Kultur). Studies of that type have a long history, especially in southeastern Poland. They have been focused mainly on loess areas in the western part the Lesser Poland Upland. Their results constitute until today a basis for the knowledge of earliest farmers territories in our country. In contrast, other regions remained less recognized until very recent years. Evidences for studying the Linear Band Pottery culture are very rich. Nowadays — in the time of intensive research linked — among others — with rescue excavations on multiple construction works — augmentation of data in incomparably bigger them in previous dozens of years. However, the most important in this respect is the AZP Project (Archaeological Picture of Poland) which encompassed until today more than 90 per cent of the territory of Poland. Comparing with the situation in 1980s the number of Linear Band Pottery sites increased almost eight times. For example, in the Raba River basin there have been confirmed a presence of a few dozen sites, while in 1970s only one small concentration of 5 settlement points was known (Kulczycka-Leciejewiczowa 1973, 21, Fig. 1). In 1980s on the whole territory of the southeastern Poland only 115 sites were registered (Kruk 1980, Map 1) — today we have those 769. They fall into three categories. The most numerous come from AZP research. There have been catalogued all site of the culture in question discovered during surface survey on the area of our interest. Evidences from older excavations fall into the second category. Finally, we have the third category that includes the most recent unpublished discoveries obtained by means of regular excavations.

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