New archaeobotanical results from 15 Neolithic sites in northern Germany are presented in
a review of the Neolithic plant economy in northern and north-western Europe. Available …

To investigate changes in culinary practices associated with the arrival of farming, we
analysed the organic residues of over 1,000 pottery vessels from hunter-gatherer-fisher and …

The freshwater reservoir effect can result in anomalously old radiocarbon ages of samples
from lakes and rivers. This includes the bones of people whose subsistence was based on …

Recent work on the four major areas of the spread of agriculture in Neolithic western Europe
has revealed that they are both chronologically and economically much more abrupt than …

The introduction of pottery vessels to Europe has long been seen as closely linked with the
spread of agriculture and pastoralism from the Near East. The adoption of pottery technology …

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios from 14C dated bones of early Atlantic aurochs
(Bos primigenius Bojanus) and late Atlantic first domestic cattle (Bos taurus Linnaeus) in …

The global warming at the end of the last glacial period led to a sea level rise, which induced
substantial long-term landscape changes in the southwestern Baltic Sea. During the …

Radiocarbon dates of food residue on pottery from northern European inland areas seem to
be influenced significantly by the freshwater reservoir effect (“hardwater” effect) stemming …

A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the
adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major …

Background I arrived at this study along an experiential path. As a child I explored the
sunken and mysterious hollow ways of the chalk downland where I grew up and which have …