Living memory
Neolithic farmers built longhouses which may have been used for ceremonies as well as providing shelter. Initial Neolithic farming settlements in Poland and Germany belonged to the LinearBandKeramic: LBK culture recognised by the linear incised kitchen pottery.
Early farming and LBK pottery spread from the Danube to the Elbe and Rhine over many decades between 5500 and 4500BC. Later Neolithic farmers must have had a sense of history when they built their longhouses directly over previous houses or buried a child in the foundation of the 'founder's' longhouse which had been left occupied for centuries or even a thousand years in some cases.
Early Neolithic longhouses
