We consider the long-term relationship between human demography, food production, and
Holocene climate via an archaeological radiocarbon date series of unprecedented sampling …

In this paper we estimate the degree to which the range and proportion of wild plant foods
are under-represented in samples of charred botanical remains from archaeological sites …

This paper rewrites the early history of Britain, showing that while the cultivation of cereals
arrived there in about 4000 cal BC, it did not last. Between 3300 and 1500 BC Britons …

A multi-disciplinary study assessing the evidence for agriculture in Neolithic Ireland is
presented, examining the timing, extent and nature of settlement and farming. Bayesian …

By applying cycle-based resilience theory the dynamics of the Early Neolithic west-central
European Linear Pottery Culture (LBK) are investigated. These are interpreted as resulting …

Land cover transformations have accompanied the rise and fall of civilizations for thousands
of years, exerting strong influence on the surrounding environment. Soil erosion and the …

Abstract The Neolithic period in Europe was subject to marked climatic variations during the
fourth millennium BCE in the Alpine arc, marking the transition between the recent Atlantic …

It has long been recognised that the proportions of Neolithic domestic animal species—
cattle, pig and sheep/goat—vary from region to region, but it has hitherto been unclear how …

This volume tackles the fundamental and broad-scale questions concerning the spread of
early animal herding from its origins in the Near East into Europe beginning in the mid-10th …

The discovery in 2012 of a complete yew bow (Taxus baccata) in the lakeside Neolithic site
of La Draga, together with two more fragmented bows from previous field seasons, are the …