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Linear Pottery

Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Culture

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Encyclopedia of Prehistory

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Today’s temperatures are 2° C lower than the mean annual temperature during the Early Neolithic period. For example, the mean annual temperature was 11.4° C in the Aldenhovener plateau of the Rhineland, Germany. Precipitation in the Linear Pottery period was 8–22% greater than today. As a result, winters were relatively mild and wetter, whereas summers were drierer.

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    Sarunas Milisauskas

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Milisauskas, S. (2001). Linear Pottery. In: Peregrine, P.N., Ember, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1187-8_15

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