Lengyel Culture Of Neolithic Europe Was Amazingly Sophisticated

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – The Lengyel culture that developed in southern Europe was initially linked to the site of Lengyel in Tolna county, in the southwestern part of Hungary.

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The Lengyel culture dates to ca. 5000 – 3400 BC, was the eastern successor to the Linear Ware culture. The settlements belonging to them were found in present-day Moravia (Czech Republic), Western Hungary, Western Slovakia, Southern Poland, and adjacent parts of Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia.

Small And Long Houses

People lived in open villages protected by ditches, and their houses were long rectangular or trapezoidal) multi-room buildings carved from clay, later also small rectangular or square pillar houses.

The society was engaged in agriculture, raising of animals like pigs, sheep and goats, hunting and fishing, cultivation of wheat, barley, and leguminous plants like lentils, peas.

Settlements of the Lengyel culture were large, widespread, and built on the river terrace, surrounded by V-shaped ditches and fences of buildings.

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