# Longhouse villages of the Lengyel tradition (-4400)

URL: https://poland-history.com/timeline/-4400-longhouse-villages-of-the-lengyel-tradition
Location: Brześć Kujawski, Kuyavia

Communities of the Lengyel-related Brześć Kujawski group built trapezoidal longhouses in Kuyavia and developed early copper use. Within the broader Prehistoric Poland period: From the first Palaeolithic hunters to the Bronze Age, the lands between the Oder and the Vistula saw waves of migration, the arrival of farming and the growth of ever more complex communities long before any state existed. At this point in the timeline (c. 4,400 BCE), the governing authority was Prehistoric communities (No single ruler). The lands of present-day Poland were inhabited by successive Palaeolithic hunters and Neolithic and Bronze Age farming communities; there was no state or single ruler. Longhouse villages of the Lengyel tradition mattered because it offers material evidence of how people lived on Polish soil long before written records, and helps date the region's earliest cultures. The event is placed here so readers can follow it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion and culture across Polish history.

## Why it matters
Longhouse villages of the Lengyel tradition mattered because it offers material evidence of how people lived on Polish soil long before written records, and helps date the region's earliest cultures.

Ruler at the time: [Prehistoric communities](https://poland-history.com/rulers/prehistoric-communities)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — Lengyel culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lengyel_culture)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Longhouse villages of the Lengyel tradition](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Longhouse+villages+of+the+Lengyel+tradition)
- [Wikipedia — Prehistory and protohistory of Poland (period overview)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_and_protohistory_of_Poland)