ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Carpathian Basin, which played a bridging role in the spread of crop-based agriculture between the Fertile Crescent via the Balkans to Central Europe. The earliest agriculturalists of Central and Southeastern Europe were the people of the Krs-Starevo culture. Evidence of the settlement and agricultural activities of the Koros culture is available from land snails and from plant remains found in the lake sediments of the Great Hungarian Plain dating to the same period, which indicate that, there was felling of trees and burning. The chapter provides the sites of the Linearbandkeramik culture in the region to the west of the Danube, dated to the middle Neolithic. The material from the Trans-Danubian Group is closely related to the cultural region covering Western and Central Europe. Neolithic farming seen as a result of the identification of plant remains preserved as imprints and also carbonised seed and fruit remains found in burnt houses and various waste and storage pits.
