Attracteurs environnementaux et modélisation prédictive de l'expansion rubanée (LBK) à travers l’Europe (c. 5550-4900 BCE)

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As a recent geostatistical analysis has illustrated (Brigand et al. 2022), LBK farmers demonstrated a great adaptability to the different geographical contexts they encountered. The database developed during a previous research project (ANR Obresoc) was used to define the major geo-pedological options involved in the location of Linearbandkeramik (or LBK) sites across Europe between 5550 and 4900 BC. The variability of these socio-environmental interactions, however, needed to be confronted in more detail with the spatio-temporal trajectory of this first Neolithic diffusion in continental temperate Europe. The objective of the modelling presented in this new article is therefore the quantified and detailed measurement of the relationships over time between the LBK archaeological dataset and the landscapes corresponding to their settlement area, described by several morphometric and agro-ecological variables. The corpus of sites is both taken globally to characterise the whole period in itself and analysed according to the five major chronological stages of development recognised. The corpus of data describing the landscape is made up of the eight variables used in the previous work (slope, landscape openness, humidity, texture, depth, loess, soils, fertility).