Map of European Neolithic at 4500–4000 BC, showing the Linear Pottery culture in bright yellow and green in the middle, over what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.

Linear pottery. The lines on this pottery are what gives the Linear Pottery culture its name.

The Linear Pottery culture was an important culture in the Neolithic(later Stone Age) of Europe. It was from 5500–4500 BC.It is abbreviated as LBK and is also known as the Linear Band Ware, Linear Ware, Linear Ceramics or Incised Ware culture.