ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Emmer, Spondylus, Linear Pottery Culture
17 Oct 2016
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Spread to the western mediterranean between 8,000-7,400 years ago: S. italy and sicily by 8000 years ago. Domestic goats, sheep, emmer wheat, and barley. Linear pottery culture (also known as linearbandkeramik (lbk): From paris basin in the west to dnestr river in ukraine. From southern hungary to the odra (oder) river mouth in poland. Later in northern europe and british isles (~6300-6000 years ago) Wheat, barley, flax, lots of cattle, plus sheep, goats, pigs, dogs. Digging sticks (no evidence for ard or plow) Permanent rectangular wood & thatch, pole-built houses. Houses range from 7 to 45 m in length. Seen as patterns of postholes with long lateral pits from which the daub (adobe) for the wattle walls was extracted. Internal groups of massive timber posts supported the pitched roof (covered in thatch) which rested on and overhung the side walls. The northern end of these houses was often more massively built of split timber planks in a trench.
