Every ceramist has to get to know his roots, in Western and Central Europe that is the linear pottery (LBK from German: Linearbandkeramik). This Neolithic pottery is over 7,000 years old. They are the oldest pots found in the Netherlands.

Where were these archeological treasures discovered? In the southernmost tip of our country, the fertile loess soils of South Limburg, including Elsloo and Stein. For the first farmers and potters in the Netherlands it was a good place to be. And for today’s ceramists, it still is…

So this summer we went to smell the Linear Pottery culture… and to taste cherry pie in South Limburg.