The Enormous Longhouses of the Linear Pottery Culture

Try your first Odoo app for free: https://www.odoo.com/r/8Bl Over 7000 years ago, the Neolithic Linear Pottery culture built colossal timber longhouse across central Europe. They were the largest structures humanity had ever erected. These longhouses could be 50 meters or 160 feet long, housing entire extended families, their livestock, and stores of grain under a single, massive roof. So what motivated the Linear Pottery culture to suddenly start building such grand structures? What do these longhouses reveal about the people who lived in them and how they organised their daily lives and their societies? And what happened to longhouses, when this society declined and collapsed in violence? *If you enjoy my videos please consider supporting the channel* Become a YouTube Channel Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUVwT8zcS5Z_rYXnpomlbfg/join Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dandavisauthor All my books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3xngwz5 *Sources* The First Farmers of Europe https://amzn.to/3wNDcqA The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe https://amzn.to/43eSVRO Interactions between earliest Linearbandkeramik farmers and central European hunter gatherers at the dawn of European Neolithization. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56029-2 Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02034-z Population Genetics and Signatures of Selection in Early Neolithic European Farmers, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 39, Issue 6, June 2022, msac108, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac108 Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1523951113 (2016). Maïté Rivollat et al. Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers (2020) DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aaz5344 Investigating kinship of Neolithic post-LBK human remains from Krusza Zamkowa, Poland using ancient DNA. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.10.008. Mobility and the diversity of Early Neolithic lives: Isotopic evidence from skeletons ttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2012.01.009. Post-marital residence patterns in LBK: Comparison of different models, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101190. The massacre mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten reveals new insights into collective violence in Early Neolithic Central Europe, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504365112 (2015). Communality and Discord in an Early Neolithic Settlement Agglomeration: The LBK Site of Vráble, Southwest Slovakia. 2020; doi:10.1017/S0959774320000049 Meyer, C., et al. Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04773-w The above includes affiliate links so we may make a small commission from your purchases at no additional cost to you which is a way to support the channel. *Thank you to the artists* Ancient Europeans https://x.com/ancient_euro3 *Video Chapters* 00:00 Neolithic Longhouses 01:50 Sponsorship 2:43 Early Neolithic Europe 3:58 LBK Origins 5:30 DNA 7:37 Neolithic Diet 8:34 Settlements 10:26 LBK Longhouses 15:07 LBK Collapse