This article is focused on the deliberate orientation of longhouses observed within the wide area of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) and succeeding cultures (post-LBK). Spatial analysis is based on the assemblage of 1546 buildings, whose purpose it was to attempt to cover the whole area of longhouse distribution. Despite variability, which considerably increased over time, the alignment of house entrances towards the south or south-east was observed. The widely accepted theory of house alignment towards the ‘ancestral homeland’ is therefore challenged by a new hypothesis, which sees orientation governed by the celestial path of the sun. Using 3D-modelling of light-and-shadow and solar impact, sun alignment is discussed as an integral element of the longhouse concept already present by the time of its genesis. The tendency of aligning longhouse entrances towards the east, which emerged during the LBK expansion westwards, is considered to be a regionally limited pattern, as no analogical shift was observed in the eastern areas of longhouse distribution.

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让阳光进来：新石器时代长屋朝向的问题

本文的重点是在线性陶器文化 (LBK) 和后续文化（LBK 后）的广阔区域内观察到的长屋的有意定位。空间分析基于 1546 座建筑物的组合，其目的是试图覆盖长屋分布的整个区域。尽管随着时间的推移而显着增加的可变性，但仍观察到房屋入口向南或东南方向排列。因此，被广泛接受的房屋朝向“祖先家园”的理论受到了一个新假设的挑战，该假设认为方向受太阳的天体路径支配。使用光影和太阳影响的 3D 建模，将太阳对齐作为长屋概念的一个组成部分进行了讨论，该概念在其起源时就已经存在。