LINEAR BAND POTTERY CULTURE IN THE UPPER VISTULA RIVER BASIN (Kultura ceramiki wstegowej rytej w dorzeczu górnej Wisly)

Until now the knowledge of 'our' material outside Poland was negligible, and the Linear Band Pottery culture (LBK) settlement in the southeastern part of the country was viewed as peripheral and deprived of many elements recognized as typical in other parts of Europe. The article proves that the settlement region in the upper Vistula basin - in the scope of density and diversity of the settlement, its function, building constructions, and chronological extent - does not falls behind other centers of the culture in question. Analyzed carried out within our research allowed to draw a new picture of the settlement of the LBK in the upper Vistula basin. Two elements of this picture are especially important. The first on is related to the increasing number of domestic sites with long post houses. Our evidences suggest that such constructions might have been present on each permanently settled LBK site, and that their small (so-far) number is rather resulting from the state of the research. The second important conclusion is related to the distribution of LBK sites. Collected evidences revealed the presence of the concentrated settlement in areas so-far considered to be deprived of LBK traces, and - within already known groups - settlement more intensive than expected.