Lengyel culture spanned Central Europe from 5000-4000 BC centered on Middle Danube. Preceded by Linear Pottery culture and succeeded by Funnelbeaker and Baden cultures. Featured agriculture with cattle, pigs, ovicaprids plus wild game hunting. Settlements had small houses and trapezoid longhouses sometimes with defensive ditches. Practiced chert mining where women endured heavy labor causing arthritis and vertebral damage. Buried flexed in cemeteries without side preference. Used copper beads and ribbons signaling Chalcolithic onset. Showed no Indo-European steppe ancestry per archaeogenetics. Carried Y-haplogroups H, H-P96, I2a2a-S6635, I2a1a1b-S21825, G2a2a1-PF3148, J2a1a2b-Z6055, C1a2-V86, E1b1b1a1b1-L618. Had mtDNA U8b1a2b, N1a1a, T2b, H, H44, J1c, W1. ADMIXTURE showed 85-98% Early European Farmers, 4-12% Western Hunter-Gatherer, 0-3% Western Steppe Herders ancestry. Overlapped Tisza and Stroke-Ornamented Pottery cultures. Pottery found across Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Poland, Slovenia. Influenced Sopot culture in Croatia and Hungary. Related to Austrian/Moravian Painted Ware, Aichbühl, Jordanów, Schussenried, Gatersleben subgroups.