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Many reflections about the relation between Mesolithic autochthones and the peasant population at the beginning of the Neolithic in Central Europe have already been made. As far as the area of Upper Silesia is concerned, it is widely accepted that the Neolithic was bought to this area by the oldest peasant settlers of the Linear Pottery culture (LPC). Around a half of the 6th millennium BC, the Linear Pottery culture people inhabited a traditional settlement area of Upper Silesian loesses. Although these areas also became well-known Mesolithic localities a long time ago, there is a lack of any evidence or even indicia to put the LPC into correlation with the settling of the oldest peasants. Currently, the significant indication of any potential acculturation of the Mesolithic inhabitants seem to be numerous discoveries of stone net sinkers in certain localities of the Linear Pottery culture on the banks of the Opava mid-river and more recently also in the Odra Gate Corridor. It is a singular phenomenon of the Neolithic in Central Europe (Banát on the border of the Carpathian Basin and the Balkan is the closest contemporary area with a higher number of discoveries of these sinkers). The concept of the esolithic origin of some clans or families in Linear settlements on the southern edge of the Upper Silesian region gains gnificant relevance. On the other hand, there are numerous counter-indications of this interpretation. Fishing with nets and stone sinkers from rubble in the Mesolithic in Upper Silesia is impossible to prove or even presume – there is still a lack of relevant discoveries. We cannot unequivocally answer the question of prospective participation of local Mesolithics in the creation and establishment of the Upper Silesian facies of the Linear Pottery culture.