The Distribution of Linear Pottery Culture – Proposed Model
The Distribution of Linear Pottery Culture – Proposed Model

Summary/Abstract: Each settlement system, regardless of the level of its economic development and social organization, is connected with the emergence of complex organization: permanent settlements, camps and many other activity areas which serve the exploitation of a given territory. The location of these sites in the subject of geographical analysis, which are becoming increasingly common in the archeological research. Except for extreme cases, nature offers man a certain choice of possibilities for effective survival. Human communities were confronted with a particularly wide range of environmental differences from the earliest phases of agricultural settlement. They certainly did not consider the various options open to them as some rigorous order which predetermined all their actions. The resources occurring within the environment might be interpreted as the result of a rational human evaluation. Accordingly the occupation of a certain terrain involved the selection of those environmental zones, which were most favourable from the point of view of the socio-political and, above all, economic organization of the communities. This means that the traces left by prehistoric settlement forms a system of information about activities, which were aimed at mastering the environment and exploiting its possibilities. [...]

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