What is Linear Pottery culture?
[[File:European Middle Neolithic.gif|thumb|300px|Map of European Neolithic at 4500–4000 BC, showing the Linear Pottery culture in bright yellow and green in the middle, over what is now [[Germany]] and the [[Czech Republic]].]] [[File:LBK-Pottery.jpg|300px|thumb|Linear pottery. The lines on this pottery are what gives the Linear Pottery culture its name.]] The '''Linear Pottery culture''' was an important culture in the [[Neolithic]] (later [[Stone Age]]) of [[Europe]]. It was from 5500–4500 BC. It is abbreviated as '''LBK''' and is also known as the '''Linear Band Ware''', '''Linear Ware''', '''Linear Ceramics''' or '''Incised Ware culture'''. The most evidence for the culture is in Central Europe. It is important evidence for early farming in Europe. The pottery after which it was named has simple cups, bowls, vases and jugs, without handles. They were made as kitchen dishes, or for carrying food and drink. The pots had line patterns on them. ==Farming== The LBK people lived over a period of 1000 years, long before the [[Bronze Age]] and farmed crops like [[wheat]], [[lentil]]s and [[pea]]s. They also kept [[cows]] and dogs, and sometimes [[hunt]]ed in the forests around them for other animals, like [[deer]]. ==Food and health== Their [[diet]] probably didn't contain enough energy (like [[Carbohydrate|carbohydrates]]), as they often did not grow as tall as the people who came before them, or as people do now. This might have also been because of [[disease]], which can spread more easily in a village than it can when people are moving about a lot and not seeing many other people, as people did before the Neolithic. People in the LBK culture probably died quite young, in their twenties or thirties, and many of their children would die before they grew up. If a person was very sick and in a lot of pain, the LBK people might have had access to [[opium]] which [[Painkiller|took away the pain]]. They probably knew how to make some illnesses better by using wild [[herbs]] as [[medicine]]. ==Religion== The LBK pe