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According to a statement released by the Leibniz Center for Archaeology (LEIZA), Aleksandr Diachenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Detlef Gronenborn of LEIZA and Johannes Gutenberg University evaluated the roles of population size, production capacity, and information exchange in societal changes through pottery. "We developed a mathematical model to describe how the organization and intensity of pottery production can influence the number of decoration styles," said Diachenko. "Additionally, the model reveals how pottery styles evolve through human information exchange and population growth," he explained. The study examined 7,000-year-old pottery from the Linear Pottery culture unearthed in...

A bowl depicting a human face with horns has been found inside a 7,000-year-old house where Poland's first farmers lived. The discovery in Biskupice was made in the area of a large, prehistoric settlement inhabited by a community described by specialists as the Linear Pottery culture... According to Professor Marek Nowak from the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, who us also involved in the research, this type of artefact is evidence the inhabitants of the settlement had contact with people living in the area of today's Hungary and Slovakia. This is indicated not only by the...