Timber became essential for Neolithic building with the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture along the Danube and Alpine pile dwellings. The oldest known LBK longhouse in Europe sits on Vienna's outskirts, among many massive timber structures. Earlier buildings used stone or mud brick. Pile dwellings needed staggering numbers of wooden posts driven into lake beds. 🏠
Massive timber needs of LBK long houses and Alpine pile dwellings
Key facts
- Timber became essential for building only with the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) culture along the Danube and in pile dwellings of the Alps, Italy, and lake regions
- The oldest known Linearbandkeramik longhouse in Europe is on the outskirts of Vienna, with numerous large longhouses at the site
- Earlier Neolithic buildings used stone or mud brick foundations rather than timber
- Pile dwelling settlements require colossal numbers of timber posts for construction
Sources
Narrating the house. The transformation of longhouses in early ...academia.edu
Exterior impression from a reconstructed LBK longhouse at Straubing in the north-west than in the centre (Modderman 1970: Zoo, Lower Bavaria. (Source: D ...
Linear Pottery culture - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
A site at Brunn am Gebirge just south of Vienna seems to document the transition to LBK. The site was densely settled in a long house pattern around 5550–5200.
Settlements and houses - ARCHEOLOGICKÝ ÚSTAV AV ČRarchaeo3d.com
At the time of their inception the oldest longhouses were rectangular ... LBK longhouses, both in terms of their orientation and their elongated shape.
Linearbandkeramik Culture - The First Farmers of Europe - ThoughtCothoughtco.com
The rectangular longhouses were between 7 and 45 meters long and between 5 and 7 meters wide. They were built of massive timber posts chinked ...
Settlement of the Early Linear Ceramics Culture at Brunn am ...journals.uni-lj.si
The whole settlement has a length from North to South of 850 m and from East to West of 500 m. The oldest part is site IIa in the south; it contains rough ...
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