Neolithic Prehistory Periods and Cultures

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• - An article describing the Neolithic origins of the domesticated horse.
  
• - Mary Jackes, David Lubell and Christopher Meiklejohn discuss the effects of the transition to agriculture on human health.
  
• - Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 1(1). This paper discusses the neolithication of the Aegean as opposed to Cyprus.
  
• - An article by Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Robert L. Bettinger that speculates on evolutionary factors driving the Neolithic Revolution.
  
• - This essay examines the issue of migration among Neolithic peoples and how this shaped cultural developments during this period in Europe.
  
• - A overview of archaeological sites in Asia Minor.
  
• - Great Buildings Online gives images, with commentary and sources, of outstanding monuments built by Neolithic societies: Stonehenge and the Temple at Tarxien, Malta.
  
• - Foissac prehistoric cave : two different worlds are waiting for you !
  
• - A gallery of stone tools from the Faiyum Oasis of Egypt dated to approximately 4200 - 3800 BC.
  
• - Course materials in on the Neolithic Revolution from the University of California, Davis.
  
• - An essay arguing that people began cultivating some crops long before they embraced agriculture, and that crop cultivation and village life often did not go hand in hand.
  
• - Provides a general overview of global plant domesitication beginning in the Neolithic. Includes archaeological discoveries in both Old and New worlds.
  
• - A loose-knit collectivity of archaeologists, mainly from Britain and the Atlantic seaboard countries of the European Union, with an interest in the Neolithic period.
  
• - An overview of the archaeological sequences of Thessaly, Crete, and the Cyclades.
  
• - A brief summary from Idea Works of the factors involved in the spread of agriculture.
  
• - Noel Broadbent, Goran Burenhult, and Moreau Maxwell discuss the sweeping changes associated with adoption of food production and offer an explanation why these events only took place independently in a few locations.
  
• - An article describing the importance of North Africa as one of the main corridors of Neolithic diffusion into Europe.
  
• - A virtual gallery of the Interactive Museum of Turkey.
  
• - A learning module from Washington State University.
  
• - Information about the film with the same title, as well as the latest news, including a photo gallery, and an overview of the forensic evidence.
  
• - Stanford researchers find that genetics can predict the presence of certain artifacts, supporting theories that prehistoric people migrated from the Middle East to Europe, reports Science Daily.
  
• - A photographic library of artifacts from Neolithic sites recovered from a group of over 70 islands located north of Scotland.
  
• - Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat to cereals, writes Mike Richards in British Archaeology.
  
• - An annotated collection of links on the origin of food production.
  
• - A description of the Neolithic origins of wine.
  
• - An essay describing several prominent archaeological sites in Turkey.
  
• - Paper presented by Peter Bogucki at the annual meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995.
  
• - Prehistoric farmers in what is now northeastern Ohio whose culture was the culmination of almost 12,000 years of prehistoric occupation.
  
• - An article that describes the migration and dispersal of farmers and the adoption of crops and livestock by indigenous foragers.
  
• - The neolithic man discovered in an Italian glacier in 1991 carried a bow and arrows, leading archaeologists to label him a hunter. Chemical analysis of his hair now indicates that he was a vegetarian.
  
• - Vucedol culture flourished between 3000 and 2200 BC in what is now modern Croatia. Their copper metallurgy was based on a new process of mass casting. This culture had a great influence on other contemporary cultures in the European heritage. This web sit
  
• - The prehistoric appearance of Indo-Europeans in the Eastern Baltic region is generally thought to be linked with the establishment of the first pre-Baltic and early Baltic territory.