The priority programme “Changes of the Geo-Biosphere” aimed to reconstruct the
environmental history of central Europe with emphasis on the time interval from 9000 to …

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 …

A critical assessment of the data recently put forward in favour of a 'Mesolithic agriculture'for
Central and Northern Europe is presented. The archaeobotanical record is quite clear …

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 …

This paper aims at reconstructing the population dynamics during the Neolithic and Bronze
Age, c. 4500–500 cal. BC, in north-western Central Europe. The approach is based on the …

The characterisation of prehistoric pottery fragments presents a quite complex task. In
provenance studies, petrographic and chemical analyses of the ceramic materials are …

Der Neolithisierungsprozess Europas wird in drei chronologisch deutlich voneinander
unterscheidbare Stadien mit je zwei Abschnitten untergliedert. Der Artikel differenziert …

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 BORDER BETWEEN THE Mesolithic and the Neolithic in Central Europe is traditionally
defined on the basis of subsistence strategy. It is the development from hunter-gatherer …