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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.
www.princeton.edu
First Farmers With No Taste for Grain
Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat to cereals, writes Mike Richards in British Archaeology.
www.britarch.ac.uk
How Agriculture Came to Central Europe
Paper presented by Peter Bogucki at the annual meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995.
www.princeton.edu
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.
www.princeton.edu
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.
www.greatbuildings.com
An essay describing several prominent archaeological sites in Turkey.
www.turizm.net
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.
cas.bellarmine.edu
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.
www.findarticles.com
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.
www.des.ucdavis.edu
Course materials in on the Neolithic Revolution from the University of California, Davis.
agronomy.ucdavis.edu
A brief summary from Idea Works of the factors involved in the spread of agriculture.
www.missouri.edu
An article describing the Neolithic origins of the domesticated horse.
www.imh.org
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.
www.gardendigest.com
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.
www.sciencedaily.com
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.
www.rhodes.aegean.gr