The First Farmers of the Linearbandkeramik

The Linearbandkeramik were Europe's first great farming society: within a few centuries their longhouse villages and incised pottery spread from the Danube to the Paris Basin, carrying wheat, cattle and a wholly new way of life descended from Anatolian pioneers. These individuals lived in the culture's Austrian and German heartlands, including Asparn-Schletz, where a massacre around 5000 BCE sealed dozens of victims in the settlement ditch, a stark reminder that the first farmers' world could be as violent as it was industrious.

The genome-wide data behind this entry was published in Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe.

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  Who were the First Farmers of the Linearbandkeramik?

  The First Farmers of the Linearbandkeramik (c. 5500-4900 BCE, Asparn an der Zaya, Lower Austria) are one of the Iconic discoveries entries in our Notable Matches catalog, represented by 12 sequenced ancient genomes published in the study "Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe".

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  What does "matching" the First Farmers of the Linearbandkeramik mean?

  Your Global25 coordinates are compared to the entry's sequenced members and the distance to the closest one is reported, a Euclidean distance in the same 25-dimensional reference space the Distance lens uses. A notable entry is one person or one small burial group, not a population average, so distances naturally run larger than population distances.

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  Are they my ancestor?

  No, and no DNA test can show that. A small distance means your genome sits near theirs in a shared reference space: similar ancestry composition, not descent. Ancestrify never claims a notable individual is your ancestor or relative.

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  How do I see my own distance to the First Farmers of the Linearbandkeramik?

  Notable Matches is a free lens on every Ancestry Map, never sold separately. Order Ancestry Map, our Global25 analysis (29.99 EUR), and your report ranks your coordinates against the full catalog, with a portrait, dossier and map for every entry. The public demo shows the lens with example data.

The catalog holds every published entry across three tiers. Browse the full Notable Matches directory. Nearby entries:

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• The Vinča Culturec. 5300-4500 BCE

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• The Varna Gold Elitec. 4600 BCE

• The Neolithic Peloponnesiansc. 6000-3200 BCE

• The Fall of Yunatsitec. 4500-4400 BCE

• The First Farmers of Starčevoc. 6200-5500 BCE

• The Copper Lords of Gumelnițac. 4500-4250 BCE

• The Shum Laka Childrenc. 6000 BCE and 1000 BCE

• The Hòabìnhian of Pha Faenc. 6000 BCE

• Loschbour Manc. 6100 BCE