- Lengyel culture
The Lengyel culture, ca. 5000–4000 BC, was an
archaeological culture located in the area of modern-day southernMoravia , westernSlovakia , westernHungary , parts of southernPoland , and in adjacent sections ofAustria ,Slovenia , andCroatia .It was a successor to the
Linear pottery culture , and in its northern extent, overlapped the somewhat later but otherwise approximately contemporaneousFunnelbeaker culture .Agriculture and stock raising (mainly cattle, but also pigs, and to a lesser extent, ovicaprids) was practiced, though a large number of wild faunal remains have also been recovered. Settlements consisted of small houses as well as trapezoid longhouses. These settlements were sometimes open, sometimes surrounded by a defensive ditch.
Inhumation was in separate cemeteries, in the flexed position with apparently no preference for which side the deceased was laid out in.Interpretation
It was associated with the cover-term Old Europe by
Marija Gimbutas , though may have been undergone "kurganization" by theProto-Indo-Europeans and become integrated into the successorGlobular Amphora culture .Notes
ee also
*
Cucuteni culture
*Vinca culture
*Yamna culture ources and external links
*
J. P. Mallory , "Lengyel Culture", "Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture ", Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
* [http://www.comp-archaeology.org/Lengyel.htm The Lengyel Culture Sphere] by Maximilian O. Baldia
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
