The Neolithic archaeologies of Moravia and Slovakia, previously provinces first in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and then within Czechoslovakia, and now half of an independent state and a whole state themselves, have often been treated separately. This chapter takes them together, with the sites sampled by this project standing as selected and, we hope, preliminary case studies of the numerous LBK communities which inhabited the river valleys and basins running south into the middle Danube. That geography of Danube tributaries may perhaps serve better to define this region of LBK settlement than modern and historical state boundaries (Fig. 4.1). From west