| Contents |
Foreword / John O'Shea -- Introduction: the dynamics of neolithisation in Europe / Erick Robinson, Sarah Viner and Angelos Hadjikoumis -- 1. Grand narratives and shorter stories / Alasdair Whittle -- 2. In constant motion? Recent radiocarbon advances in mathematical modelling and radiocarbon chronology of the neolithisation of Europe / Marc Vander Linden -- 3. Time is on my side{u2026} / João Zilhão -- 4. The Neolithic Revolution: an ecological perspective / John C. Barrett -- 5. Farming regimes in Neolithic Europe: gardening with cows and other models / Valasia Isaakidou -- 6. Interpretation of Scirpus from early farming sites in western Asia and Europe: a cutting sedge of archaeobotanical research? / Michael Charles -- 7. Farming, material culture, and ideology: repackaging the Neolithic of Greece (and Europe) / Paul Halstead -- 8. Enchantment and enchainment in later Balkan prehistory: towards an aesthetic of precision and geometric order / John Chapman -- 9. Clutching at straw: the early Neolithic and the dispersal of agriculture / Anthony J. Legge and Andrew M.T. Moore -- 10. 'Pig-menting' the Spanish Neolithic / Angelos Hadjikoumis -- 11. The [environ-]mental contexts of earliest Neolithic settlement and architecture in western Hungary / Eszter Bánffy and Pál Sümegi -- 12. Farming practice and society in the central European Neolithic and Bronze Age: an archaeobotanical response to the secondary products revolution / Amy Bogaard -- 13. Technological traditions and 'the dialectic of expansion': contact, transmission, and neolithisation along the northwest fringes of the LBK / Erick Robinson -- 14. Cattle and pig husbandry in the British Neolithic / Sarah Viner -- 15. Tracing the future in the past: the introduction of the Neolithic in eastern Scania -- tracking change in a local perspective / Anna-Karin Andersson -- 16. Early farming and the creation of community: the case of northern Europe / Magdalena S. Midgley. |
