Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World
6. [ancient European styles and periods]
7. European Neolithic (culture or period)

Narrower term/s

• Stichbandkeramik (culture or style)
• Linienbandkeramik (Neolithic culture and style)

Anotations

Scope note:

Central European Neolithic culture and style that probably developed from the influx of Neolithic peoples into Mesolithic cultures, and spread quickly from the Hungarian plain to Slovakia, Czech lands, Austria, Germany, Poland, the Low Countries, and eastern France between ca. 5,400 and ca. 4,900 BCE. It is characterized by the introduction of farming, animal husbandry, large longhouses, chipped stone tools, and distinctive pottery decorated with incised bands of lines, strokes, and indentations. "Bandkeramik" is sometimes used interchangeably with "Linienbandkeramik," however, according to traditional classification the latter is a variety of the former. "Danubian" was formerly more commonly used to refer to this culture, though "Bandkeramik" is more often used by modern scholars.