The Želiezovce group was an archaeological group ("

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") during the first part of the Middle

Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

period in western

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Spiš Spiš ( ; or ; ) is a region in north-eastern Slovakia, with a very small area in south-eastern Poland (more specifically encompassing 14 former Slovak villages). Spiš is an informal designation of the territory, but it is also the name of one ...

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, adjacent

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, southern

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, and southern and south-eastern

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. It arose from the

Linear Pottery Culture The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing . Derived from the German ''Linearbandkeramik'', it is also known as the Linear Band Ware, Linear Ware, Linear Ceramics or Incis ...

. The group is named after finds made in Veľký Pesek, now part of the village of

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(which was part of

Želiezovce Želiezovce (, until 1895: ; ) is a town in Slovakia in the Nitra Region in the Levice District, near the Hron river. Districts * Jarok (Želiezovce), Jarok () * Karolína (Želiezovce), Karolína * Mikula (Želiezovce), Mikula (1967 establis ...

in 1986-1992). The excavation archive was deposited in Želiezovce when discovered.

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