The Widening Harvest: The Neolithic Transition in Europe : Looking Back, Looking ForwardAlbert J. Ammerman, Paolo Biagi This volume brings together papers presented at a conference titled The Neolithic Transition in Europe: Looking Back-Looking Forward, held in Venice in 1998. Eighteen chapters address the origins of agriculture; the Neolithic transition in southern, central, and northern Europe; genetic and linguistic aspects of the Neolithic; and future prospects for research and analysis. |
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CHAPTER I | 4 |
The Origins of Agriculture | 19 |
A Comparative Perspective | 27 |
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Abu Hureyra advance agriculture Ammerman analysis Anatolia Ancient animals appearance Archaeology areas Asia beginning Biagi bones Cal B.C. Cardial Cavalli-Sforza Cave central Europe cereals colonization communities complex context continuity crops cultivation cultural demic diffusion determinations diffusion distribution domestic earliest early farming early Neolithic East Eastern economy edited Epipaleolithic et al European evidence example excavations explain farmers farming field foraging genetic Grotta groups Guilaine Hillman human hunter-gatherers important Impressed indicates indigenous involved Italy Laboratory late Mesolithic later Linear Pottery London major material Mediterranean Mesolithic sites Neolithic transition Néolithique northern Origins patterns period phase plants Pleistocene population possible Prehistoric present problem production question radiocarbon dates recent region remains result samples sequence settlement society southern spread suggested tion University Western wild World