6,000-year-old longhouse site with wealth of artifacts found, stuns archaeologists

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6,000-year-old longhouse site with wealth of artifacts found, stuns archaeologists
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Archaeologists unearthed a 6,000-year-old longhouse, revealing the presence of not one, but two distinct Neolithic cultures.

In a surprising turn of events in Poland, an archaeological team uncovered not one but two distinct Neolithic cultures, sparking immense fascination in the world of ancient history.

Archaeologists uncovered large storage pits containing fragments of clayware, flint tools, and animal bones. These findings confirmed their expectations of the culture’s presence. However, a “completely unexpected” and more intriguing discovery was also made: a longhouse dating from several thousand years before the Funnelbeakers .

who migrated from the Transcarpathian territory in southwestern Ukraine to modern-day Poland. Named after their pottery, characterized by parallel line motifs, they left behind some of the oldest ceramics in Europe. The Linear Pottery settlement appears to have extended beyond the construction site, and similar longhouses from this period have been found in other parts of Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine, as perpits and “cops” around the large house provide insights into their cultural practices, including their techniques for building walls out of soil, according to

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