Europe's first farmers

Plants and animals originally domesticated in the Near East arrived in Europe between 7,000 and 4,000 BC. Was the new technology introduced by migrants, or was it an 'inside job'? How were the new species adapted to European conditions? What were the immediate and long-term consequences of...

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Other Authors: Price, T. Douglas
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
New York : 2000.
Physical Description: xv, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Table of Contents:
  • Europe's first farmers : an introduction /
  • T. Douglas Price
  • Southeastern Europe in the transition to agriculture in Europe : bridge, buffer, or mosaic /
  • Ruth Tringham
  • Transition to agriculture in eastern Europe /
  • Marek Zvelebil and Malcolm Lillie
  • Cardial pottery and the agricultural transition in Mediterranean Europe /
  • William K. Barnett
  • Mesolithic and Neolithic interaction in southern France and northern Italy : new data and current hypotheses /
  • Didier Binder
  • From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in the Iberian peninsula /
  • João Zilhão
  • Origins of agriculture in south-central Europe /
  • Michael Jochim
  • How agriculture came to north-central Europe /
  • Peter Bogucki
  • Getting back to basics : transitions to farming in Ireland and Britain /
  • Peter Woodman
  • Introduction of farming in northern Europe ;
  • Lessons in the transition to agriculture /
  • T. Douglas Price.