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- 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.
- 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 Neolithic Mosaic on the North European Plain - This essay examines the issue of migration among Neolithic peoples and how this shaped cultural developments during this period in Europe.
- Aceramic Neolithic of Turkey - A virtual gallery of the Interactive Museum of Turkey.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Bannockburn Neolithic Enclosures - An illustrated report by Jim Rideout of recent archaeological inquiry into the Neolithic enclosures at Bannockburn, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Wikipedia Articles
- Neolithic architecture - Neolithic architecture is the architecture of the Neolithic period. In Southwest Asia, Neolithic cultures appear soon after 10000 BC, initially in the Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and from there spread eastwards and westwards.
- Neolithic founder crops - The Neolithic founder crops (or primary domesticates) are the eight plant species that were domesticated by early Holocene (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region of southwest Asia, and which formed the basis of systematic agriculture in the Middle East, North Africa, India, Persia and (later) Europe. They consist of flax, three cereals and four pulses, and are the ...
- Heart of Neolithic Orkney - Heart of Neolithic Orkney refers to a group of Neolithic monuments found in the Scottish island of Orkney. The name was adopted by UNESCO when it proclaimed these sites as a World Heritage Site in 1999.
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic B - Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) is a division of the Neolithic developed by Dame Kathleen Kenyon during her archaeological excavations at Jericho in the southern Levant region.
- Pre-Pottery Neolithic A - The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (short PPNA, around 9000 BC) represents the early Neolithic in the Levantine and upper Mesopotamian region of the Fertile Crescent. It succeeds the Natufian culture of the Epipaleolithic (Mesolithic) as the domestication of plants and animals was in its beginnings and triggered by the Younger Dryas.