The study makes additional inferrences about inheritance systems
and inequality in LBK culture. Higher status grave good were
found in the graves of men who grew up in areas with good soils.
But, the conclusions drawn about inheritance and inequality are
in my view less strongly supported by the evidence, since any
system of succession at death to someone in the community
according to any set of rules is going to produce a similar
pattern. The economic inequality in that society could simply
flow from one village having better farming conditions than
another, which is not what we normally think about when we think
of social inequality within a society. The LBK culture was
organized into villages (hamlets really) which each had perhaps
dozens to something less than a hundred people, with a number of
"Long houses" (a Long house of 6 meters by 45 meters with some
space devoted to housing animals would be typical) that were
inhabited for up to about thirty years at a time, some of which
were close to each other,