Danubian Culture

Early farming culture(s) of the Danube basin of central and eastern Europe, of the Neolithic and Eneolithic, starting c 5300 BC. The stages, named by Gordon Childe, were Danubian I (Linear Pottery culture), Danubian II (later Neolithic cultures, such as Tisza, Lengyel, Rossen, and stroke-ornamented pottery cultures), and Danubian III (late Lengyel, Brzesc, Kujawski, Jordanow). The first stage was based on slash and burn cultivation and the shoe-last celt, objects of spondylus shell, and the use of bandkeramik. There were substantial timber longhouses during occupations and after abandonment, sites were later reoccupied and villages rebuilt. By the mid-5th millennium, the Danubian II cultures (Rössen, stroke-ornamented ware, Lengyel, Tisza) arose. The term is now outdated.

Term used by Gordon Childe to describe the sequence of prehistoric cultures found in central Europe, along the valley.of the Danube and other rivers; it is not often used today. Danubian I is the Linear Pottery culture; Danubian II the later Neolithic cultures, such as Tisza, Lengyel, Stroke-Ornamented Ware and ROssen; Danubian III-VI were used by Childe to describe the various phases of the Copper and Bronze Ages in the area, but were never widely adopted by other scholars.