Neolithic Farming in Central Europe examines the nature of the earliest crop cultivation, a
subject that illuminates the lives of Neolithic farming families and the day-to-day reality of the …

For over two generations, pathological phenomena observed on animal remains have been
described in individual site reports by many faunal analysts publishing together with …

In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant
changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical …

Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the
Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and …

This paper takes a comparative approach to early farming, arguing that bioarchaeological
work on Neolithic Europe can inform understanding of earlier cultivation and herding in the …

Presenting a wide variety of case studies, ranging from the early Palaeolithic to Post-
modernity, and from Europe to the Andes, West and East Africa, and the USA, Environmental …

The statement, by the eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith, that luxuries are all things
that are not necessities is too simplistic an approach to be useful within the context of …

The Neolithic period in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula has received the attention of
many archaeologists during the XXth and XXIst centuries, from the earliest humanists like …

Both the number and diversity of studies of Holocene climate variability have expanded
dramatically over the last decade, as new regions around the world are investigated, new …

In the last decades, data on the economy and environment of the Neolithic period of lake
dwellings (4300–2400 bc) in central Europe has increased considerably and also …