Description

Beautiful pot from the Linear Band Ceramic culture (aka LBK: LinearBandKeramische), which is the oldest culture of Central Europe and had been the main vector of neolithization for Western and North of the European area, through the use of the Danubian trade road. This is called Linear Band because all their ceramics exhibit linear incised patterns on the upper outer part, such as lines, chevrons and sometimes imprint of shells, in plain or dotted lines.

There are two main types: rough ceramics (big vessel with few details and quickly modeled) and more delicate and thin ceramics (smaller vessel smoothed with higher workmanship’s standard and exhibiting incised friezes).

Our atefact belongs to the second category, showing a black color pot with thin incised dots stacked one atop the other. This vessel has also four globules. The location where it has been found (Aisne, France) lead to think that it belongs to a subgroup: the Rössen culture.

This pot had been found by the previous owner’s ancestor at the end of the XIXth century in the Aisne region and date from the late 5th millenium B.C. (ca. 4300 B.C.).

Reference

Pic. 4

Strasbourg museum