Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.

Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis o

"This book is a copublication of The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and The Field Museum"--Copyright page.

Sarunas Milisauskas· 1.1 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this book is four-fold: to introduce English-speaking students and scholars to some of the outstanding arc

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agric