Over the past 50 years the most enigmatic feature of pollen diagrams from northwest Europe
has been the mid-Holocene 'elm decline', and there has been much speculation as to the …

This article discusses paleoethnobotanical research and results presented in the recent
literature. Although archaeobotany is a fairly recent addition to the study of the past, it now …

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 …

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least
understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering …

Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the
two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Ireland are distinct from continental Europe for …

Douglass Bailey's volume fills the huge gap that existed for a comprehensive synthesis, in
English, of the archaeology of the Balkans between 6,500 and 2,000 BC; much research on …

Landscapes of Neolithic Ireland is the first volume to be devoted solely to the Irish Neolithic,
using an innovative landscape and anthropological perspective to provide significant new …

In this study Roland Fletcher argues that the built environment becomes a constraint on the
long-term development of a settlement. It is costly to move settlements, or to demolish and …

Models of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Britain in recent years have tended to
downplay the role of changes in the subsistence economy, emphasizing a very gradual …

This paper presents and discusses the results of a palaeodietary and AMS dating study of
burials from the Mesolithic sites of Téviec and Hoëdic, Brittany, France. In common with …