The Linear Pottery culture is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic, flourishing ca.

5500–4500 BCE.

It is abbreviated as LBK (from German: Linearbandkeramik), is also known as the Linear Band Ware, Linear Ware, Linear Ceramics or Incised Ware culture, and falls within the Danubian I culture of V. Gordon Childe.The densest evidence for the culture is on the middle Danube, the upper and middle Elbe, and the upper and middle Rhine.

The pottery after which it was named consists of simple cups, bowls, vases and jugs, without handles, but in a later phase with lugs or pierced lugs, bases and necks.

They were obviously designed as kitchen dishes, or for the immediate or local transport of food and liquids.