Europe's First FarmersT. Douglas Price Plants and animals originally domesticated in the Near East arrived in Europe between 7,000 and 4,000 BC. Was the new technology introduced by migrants, or was it an 'inside job'? How were the new species adapted to European conditions? What were the immediate and long-term consequences of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming? These central questions in the prehistory of Europe are discussed here by leading specialists, drawing on the latest scholarship in fields as diverse as genetics and IndoEuropean linguistics. |
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Europes first farmers an introduction | 1 |
Southeastern Europe in the transition to agriculture in Europe bridge buffer or mosaic | 19 |
Transition to agriculture in eastern Europe | 57 |
Cardial pottery and the agricultural transition in Mediterranean Europe | 93 |
Mesolithic and Neolithic interaction in southern France and northern Italy new data and current hypotheses | 117 |
From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the Iberian peninsula | 144 |
The origins of agriculture in southcentral Europe | 183 |
How agriculture came to northcentral Europe | 197 |
Getting back to basics transitions to farming in Ireland and Britain | 219 |
The introduction of farming in northern Europe | 260 |
Lessons in the transition to agriculture | 301 |
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