A major environmental and societal event struck the Mediterranean basin during the 9th
millennium cal BP. A sudden and major climatic crisis occurred in the Northern Hemisphere …

Increasing research in western Anatolia since the 1990s onwards shows that the Neolithic
way of life in this region emerged in the first half of the seventh millennium BC and evolved …

In this book, Bleda Düring offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated
with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human …

The Neolithic populations, which colonized Europe approximately 9,000 y ago, presumably
migrated from Near East to Anatolia and from there to Central Europe through Thrace and …

This article explores the changes that occurred in harvesting technology during the dispersal
of the Neolithic in the Mediterranean basin. It does so through technological and use-wear …

This chapter tracks the dispersal of domestic sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle, from the Fertile
Crescent to their points of furthest dispersal in northern Europe and southern Africa. It brings …

In this paper the author presents his vision on the neolithisation of the Western
Mediterranean, based for a great part on long field experience. He first provides a …

RESEARCH BY BRITISH AND AMERICAN SCHOLARS on the transition to farming in
Central Europe has resulted in a number of models which have been viewed with …

This paper focuses on early Holocene rapid climate change (RCC) records in the
Mediterranean zone, which are under-represented in continental archives (9.2 to 8.2 ka …

When, and by what route, did farming first reach Europe? A terrestrial model might envisage
a gradual advance around the northern fringes of the Aegean, reaching Thrace and …