Lengyel

A late Danubian culture with the type site in western Hungary and many regional variants in Hungary, parts of Austria, and much of Czechoslovakia and Poland. It is closely linked to the Tisza culture of the Hungarian plain, and it may have been from this area that the Lengyel people adopted painted pottery and the occasional use of copper (some of the earliest use in temperate Europe). With the Rössen and Tisza culture, it is a descendant of Linear Pottery culture. The Lengyel culture is divided into two main phases: the Painted Lengyel, defined by white, red, and yellow crusted wares and dated c 4000-3500 BC, and the Unpainted Lengyel, characterized by knobbed and incised pottery and dated c 3500-3000 BC. The type site was a settlement adjoining a cemetery of some 90 inhumation graves. Sites have trapezoidal longhouses and some defensive works.

The type site for a widespread Late Neolithic culture of the 4th millennium be, distributed from central Hungary to western Austria and from southern Poland to Srem in Yugoslavia. The Lengyel culture is divided into two main phases: the Painted Lengyel, defined by white, red and yellow crusted wares and dated <4000-3500 be, and the Unpainted Lengyel, characterized by knobbed and incised pottery and dated <3500-3000 be. The type site, near Szekszard in western Hungary, excavated by M. Wozinszky, comprises a settlement adjoining a cemetery of some 90 inhumation graves.