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First Farmers With No Taste for Grain - Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat to cereals, writes Mike Richards in British Archaeology.
How Agriculture Came to Central Europe - Paper presented by Peter Bogucki at the annual meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995.
The Neolithic Diaspora in Europe - An article that describes the migration and dispersal of farmers and the adoption of crops and livestock by indigenous foragers.
Ancient Neolithic Architecture - Great Buildings Online gives images, with commentary and sources, of outstanding monuments built by Neolithic societies: Stonehenge and the Temple at Tarxien, Malta.
Neolithic Turkey - An essay describing several prominent archaeological sites in Turkey.
The Slow Birth of Agriculture - An essay arguing that people began cultivating some crops long before they embraced agriculture, and that crop cultivation and village life often did not go hand in hand.
Hairy Clues to the Iceman's Diet - The neolithic man discovered in an Italian glacier in 1991 carried a bow and arrows, leading archaeologists to label him a hunter. Chemical analysis of his hair now indicates that he was a vegetarian.
The Origins of Agriculture as a Natural Experiment in Cultural Evolution - An article by Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Robert L. Bettinger that speculates on evolutionary factors driving the Neolithic Revolution.
Evolution of Crop Plants - Course materials in on the Neolithic Revolution from the University of California, Davis.
The Agricultural Revolution - A brief summary from Idea Works of the factors involved in the spread of agriculture.
Gardening History Timeline - From Ancient Times - Provides a general overview of global plant domesitication beginning in the Neolithic. Includes archaeological discoveries in both Old and New worlds.
Study Suggests Neolithic Migration - Stanford researchers find that genetics can predict the presence of certain artifacts, supporting theories that prehistoric people migrated from the Middle East to Europe, reports Science Daily.
Aegean and Cyprus in the Early Holocene: Brothers or Distant Relatives? - Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 1(1). This paper discusses the neolithication of the Aegean as opposed to Cyprus.
Origins and Ancient History of Wines - A description of the Neolithic origins of wine.
Vucedol Culture - Vucedol culture flourished between 3000 and 2200 BC in what is now modern Croatia. Their copper metallurgy was based on a new process of mass casting. This culture had a great influence on other contemporary cultures in the European heritage. This web site claims they invented the first European calendar and presented it in their ceramics.
Indo-Europeans in the Eastern Baltic in the View of an Archaeologist - The prehistoric appearance of Indo-Europeans in the Eastern Baltic region is generally thought to be linked with the establishment of the first pre-Baltic and early Baltic territory.
The Origins of Agriculture - An annotated collection of links on the origin of food production.
Neolithic Studies Group - Loose-knit group of archaeologists, mainly from Britain and the Atlantic seaboard countries of the European Union, with an interest in the Neolithic period. Gives details of meetings and publications.
Human Biology and the First Farmers of Western Europe - Mary Jackes, David Lubell and Christopher Meiklejohn discuss the effects of the transition to agriculture on human health.
ArchAtlas: Archaeological Atlas Project - Uses satellite images and electronic mapping to interpret the location and spread of early farming and urban communities across the world.
Aceramic Neolithic of Turkey - A virtual gallery of the Interactive Museum of Turkey.
Commemorating the dead, Neolithic style - From The Daily Star, a reinterpretation of Neolithic plastered skulls from Jordan, Syria, Israel and Turkey is changing the way scholars think about cult, death and the afterlife in the Neolithic and the ancient Middle East.
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