- The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- List of Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe: An Introduction
- Environments and Landscape Change
- Movement of Plants, Animals, Ideas, and People in South-East Europe
- The Neolithization of Mediterranean Europe: Mobility and Interactions from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Moving Animals and Plants in the Early Neolithic of North-Western Europe
- Language, Genes, and Cultural Interaction
- The Balkan Neolithic and Chalcolithic
- The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe
- Early Neolithic Manifestations in Central and Eastern Europe
- The Atlantic Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition
- Settlements in South-East Europe
- Domestic Space in the Mediterranean
- Longhouse Lifestyles in the Central European Neolithic
- Lakeside Dwellings in the Circum Alpine Region
- The Bandkeramik Longhouses: A Material, Social, and Mental Metaphor for Small-Scale Sedentary Societies
- Houses, Halls, and Occupation in Britain and Ireland
- Places of Settlement in Southern Scandinavia
- Stable Isotopes and Neolithic Subsistence: Pattern and Variation
- Subsistence Practices and Social Routine in Neolithic Southern Europe
- Subsistence Practices in Central and Eastern Europe
- Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern Europe
- The Neolithic Year
- Religious Routine and Pilgrimage in the British Isles
- Invention and European Knapping Traditions
- Shared Labour and Large-Scale Action: European Flint Mining
- Stone and Flint Axes in Neolithic Europe
- Pots and Potters in the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition in South-East Europe
- Linearbandkeramik Pottery and Society
- Ceramics and Society in Northern Europe
- Bell Beaker Pottery and Society
- A Miniature World: Models and Figurines in South-East Europe
- <i>Spondylus Gaederopus/Glycymeris</i> Exchange Networks in the European Neolithic and Chalcolithic
- Amber
- The First Metalwork and Expressions of Social Power
- Early Metallurgy in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean
- Early Metallurgy in Western and Northern Europe
- Deposition in Pits
- Animals and Social Relations
- Central European Enclosures
- Italian Enclosures
- Causewayed Enclosures in Northern and Western Europe
- Chambered Tombs and Passage Graves of Western and Northern Europe
- Neolithic Rock Art in Iberia
- The Rock Art Tradition of Valcamonica–Valtellina During the Neolithic Period
- Rock Art and the Rock Surface: Neolithic Rock Art Traditions of Britain, Ireland, and Northernmost Europe
- Underground Religion in the Central Mediterranean Neolithic
- A Place in the Cosmos: Celestial Bodies and the Passage Graves of Western Europe
- Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in the Neolithic and Early–Middle Copper Age of South-East Europe
- Burial and Human Body Representations in the Mediterranean Neolithic
- Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Central Europe
- Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Northern Europe
- Mortuary Practices and Bodily Representations in North-West Europe
- Unexpected Histories? South-East and Central Europe
- Commentary: What Do We Mean by ‘Neolithic Societies’?
- The Decline of the Neolithic and the Rise of Bronze Age Society
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
The Mediterranean region represented a significant zone for the transmission of the Neolithic and its farming economy. This essay reviews the different mechanisms and geographic constraints that influenced the movement of farming and cultural trends, and assesses the current interpretative models as well as traditional approaches in the context of recent archaeological discoveries and publication. Neolithic evidence across southern Europe, from the Near East, Aegean, north Africa and to Iberia and France, is described in the different regions and set against the current chronology. Key issues include the parallel development of settled farmers alongside mobile hunter-gatherers and their gradual assimilation into food producing societies, and the longevity of the typical Mediterranean economy.
Keywords: Mediterranean, Neolithic, colonization, islands, Anatolia, population, Wave of Advance model, farming, origins, domestication, pottery
Caroline Malone studied prehistoric archaeology at Cambridge University, and wrote her PhD on Neolithic interaction and ritual in Southern Italy and Sicily. She held the Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome, before working for English Heritage, the British Museum and teaching at Bristol and Cambridge Universities. She is now Reader in Prehistoric Archaeology at Queen’s University Belfast, and has undertaken numerous excavations in Italy, Malta and Sicily where she continues to research.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- List of Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe: An Introduction
- Environments and Landscape Change
- Movement of Plants, Animals, Ideas, and People in South-East Europe
- The Neolithization of Mediterranean Europe: Mobility and Interactions from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Moving Animals and Plants in the Early Neolithic of North-Western Europe
- Language, Genes, and Cultural Interaction
- The Balkan Neolithic and Chalcolithic
- The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe
- Early Neolithic Manifestations in Central and Eastern Europe
- The Atlantic Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition
- Settlements in South-East Europe
- Domestic Space in the Mediterranean
- Longhouse Lifestyles in the Central European Neolithic
- Lakeside Dwellings in the Circum Alpine Region
- The Bandkeramik Longhouses: A Material, Social, and Mental Metaphor for Small-Scale Sedentary Societies
- Houses, Halls, and Occupation in Britain and Ireland
- Places of Settlement in Southern Scandinavia
- Stable Isotopes and Neolithic Subsistence: Pattern and Variation
- Subsistence Practices and Social Routine in Neolithic Southern Europe
- Subsistence Practices in Central and Eastern Europe
- Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern Europe
- The Neolithic Year
- Religious Routine and Pilgrimage in the British Isles
- Invention and European Knapping Traditions
- Shared Labour and Large-Scale Action: European Flint Mining
- Stone and Flint Axes in Neolithic Europe
- Pots and Potters in the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition in South-East Europe
- Linearbandkeramik Pottery and Society
- Ceramics and Society in Northern Europe
- Bell Beaker Pottery and Society
- A Miniature World: Models and Figurines in South-East Europe
- <i>Spondylus Gaederopus/Glycymeris</i> Exchange Networks in the European Neolithic and Chalcolithic
- Amber
- The First Metalwork and Expressions of Social Power
- Early Metallurgy in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean
- Early Metallurgy in Western and Northern Europe
- Deposition in Pits
- Animals and Social Relations
- Central European Enclosures
- Italian Enclosures
- Causewayed Enclosures in Northern and Western Europe
- Chambered Tombs and Passage Graves of Western and Northern Europe
- Neolithic Rock Art in Iberia
- The Rock Art Tradition of Valcamonica–Valtellina During the Neolithic Period
- Rock Art and the Rock Surface: Neolithic Rock Art Traditions of Britain, Ireland, and Northernmost Europe
- Underground Religion in the Central Mediterranean Neolithic
- A Place in the Cosmos: Celestial Bodies and the Passage Graves of Western Europe
- Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in the Neolithic and Early–Middle Copper Age of South-East Europe
- Burial and Human Body Representations in the Mediterranean Neolithic
- Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Central Europe
- Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Northern Europe
- Mortuary Practices and Bodily Representations in North-West Europe
- Unexpected Histories? South-East and Central Europe
- Commentary: What Do We Mean by ‘Neolithic Societies’?
- The Decline of the Neolithic and the Rise of Bronze Age Society
- Author Index
- Subject Index
