# First farmers arrive with the Linear Pottery culture (-5500)

URL: https://poland-history.com/timeline/-5500-first-farmers-arrive-with-the-linear-pottery-culture
Location: Silesia and Lesser Poland

Farmers of the Linear Pottery culture spread from the Danube basin into the loess soils of southern Poland, bringing cultivated cereals, domestic animals and long timber houses. 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. 5,500 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. First farmers arrive with the Linear Pottery culture mattered because movements of peoples reshaped the population, languages and cultures of the lands that became Poland. 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
First farmers arrive with the Linear Pottery culture mattered because movements of peoples reshaped the population, languages and cultures of the lands that became Poland.

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

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — Linear Pottery culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Pottery_culture)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — First farmers arrive with the Linear Pottery culture](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=First+farmers+arrive+with+the+Linear+Pottery+culture)
- [Wikipedia — Prehistory and protohistory of Poland (period overview)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory_and_protohistory_of_Poland)