The nature and distribution of political power in Europe during the Neolithic era remains
poorly understood. During this period, many societies began to invest heavily in building …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

Measurement of the relative abundance of 2H (expressed in δ 2H values) in tissues of
plants, wildlife and people has evolved into a powerful forensic tool. The approach is based …

The introduction of domesticated plants and animals into Britain during the Neolithic cultural
period between 5,200 and 4,500 years ago is viewed either as a rapid event or as a gradual …

Britain has been inhabited by humans for over half a million years, during which time there
were a great many changes in lifestyles and in the surrounding landscape. This book, now …

This is an isotopic study of collagen and bone apatite samples from individuals buried in the
1st–3rd centuries AD cemetery of Isola Sacra on the Mediterranean coast near Rome, Italy …

The study of the proportions of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen which survive in
ancient human and animal bones offers highly suggestive indications of ancient diets …

Postprocessual views of the transition to agriculture in Northwestern Europe have sought to
decouple ideology and subsistence economy as a means of protecting the status of ideology …

We report here on stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements of human and faunal
bone collagen from the Iron Age, Viking Age, and Late Medieval site of Newark Bay, Orkney …

The spread of early farming in Europe is revisited using a sample of 3072 audited 14C
calBC dates from 940 georeferenced early Neolithic sites. The surface expansion of early …