Bylany

A large village settlement of the Danubian culture in the loess lands of the Bohemian plain of Czechoslovakia. This large site had many phases of occupation, including by people who made stroke-ornamented pottery. There were timber-framed long houses in the three main phases of the Linear Pottery sequence. Subsistence was based on emmer wheat cultivation and cattle husbandry.

A large village settlement of the Bohemian regional group of the Linear pottery culture, located on the fertile loesslands of the Bohemian plain in Czechoslovakia. This 6.5-hectare site comprises timber-framed long houses from three main phases (2-4) of the Linear Pottery sequence. According to the excavator, the late B. Soudsky, each occupation phase comprised a small number of houses centred on a large long house (or ‘clubhouse’) and associated with a stock enclosure. Subsistence strategies were based on the cultivation of emmer wheat and cattle husbandry; the excavator has hypothesized a form of cyclic agriculture.