Cultivated emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccon Schrank, a tetraploid species with hulled grain,
has been largely cultivated during seven millennia in the Middle-East, Central and West …

This book is concerned with questions on the times when and the places where a range of
plants were domesticated in the classical Old World (ie south-west Asia, Europe and Africa …

This paper reviews the distinctive economic and social development of Neolithic Italy and its
islands, from ca. 6000 BC until the emergence of the Copper Age ca. 3500 BC Through a …

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000
years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in …

The Italian peninsula offers an excellent case study within which to investigate long-term
regional demographic trends and their response to climate fluctuations, especially given its …

The authors present a new, two-stage model of the spread of farming along the eastern
Adriatic coast based on the first appearance of pottery. The initial stage was a very rapid …

In this chapter, we examine the appearance of domestic animals in Italy and the adjacent
parts of Istria in Slovenia, the Tyrrhenian Islands (Corsica and Sardinia) and the coasts and …

Geographically, Britain and Ireland lie on the northwestern fringes of Europe. The beginning
of the Neolithic here, at ca. 4000 cal BC, is marked by the appearance of a suite of domestic …

May you live in interesting times! While nobody knows the origin of this alleged old Chinese
curse, its meaning is clear: in times of upheaval and radical change, most people's lives are …

Abstract The Late Neolithic pile‐dwelling of Palù di Livenza yielded archaeological remains
typical of the Square Mouth Pottery and Lagozza Cultures. A palynological investigation …