Philipp von Zabern, 2005. — 431 S. — (Archaeologie in Eurasien 18/Studien im Thrakien-Marmara-Raum 2). Band 2 der Reihe „Studien im Thrakien-Marmara-Raum“ befasst sich mit der wichtigsten Fundgruppe des Siedlungshügels, der Keramik. Im ersten Teil unterzieht Hermann Parzinger die gesamte zwischen 1993 und 1998 aus den mittel- und spätneolithischen Schichten von Asagi Pinar...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 139 p. — (BAR International Series 2746). During recent years new excavations at a number of Neolithic locations in the Central Zagros by German, British and Iranian archaeologists have revealed a series of important results. Notable are the Early Neolithic sites of Choga Golan, Jani, Sheikh-e Abad, and East Chia Sabz, all discovered and excavated within...
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 282 p. — (OSPA: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology 6). In the 5th millennium BCE, the first farming societies in the Western Alps developed unique burial practices characterized by Chamblandes-type graves. These box-shaped graves, constructed from stone slabs or wooden planks, have intrigued archaeologists since the 19th century, particularly around...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 247 S. — (BAR International Series 2763). Neolithic cultural groups are traditionally determined on the basis of pottery distribution, and ceramic clusters have therefore been conflated with cultural ones. Though there has been general acknowledgement of the methodological and theoretical problems with this practice, it is still common. This volume aims...
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 264 p. In Britain, Ireland and Southern Scandinavia, the Early Neolithic is characterised by monumental constructions (e.g. causewayed enclosures, dolmens) and by specific traditions of depositional practice. Some aspects of these practices are similar in both regions, for example the shapes and use of monuments, their overall developmental sequences,...
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 327 p. This volume collects papers on the pre-Corded Ware horizon in central Europe and adjacent areas (i.e. from c. 3500 – 2800 BC). This phase is very patchily researched, partly also because certain kinds of evidence, notably domestic architecture and burials, are rare or absent in many regions. This has occasionally been interpreted as signs of a...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 229 p. — (BAR International Series 2820). Cet ouvrage présente l'étude détaillée de la pierre taillée de Çatalhöyük-West Mound, silex et obsidienne, dans une approche pluridisciplinaire et multi-scalaire. L'approche pluridisciplinaire comprend la caractérisation macroscopique et minéralogique de la matière première (spectroscopie infrarouge); la géologie...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 174 p. — (BAR International Series 2838). How did farming spread into Europe, from its origins in the Near East? And what remained of the original Neolithic, once it spread beyond its initial boundaries, to Western Anatolia, Greece and the Balkans? This book looks at the content of the Neolithic pattern of existence that spread into Europe 8,500 years...
Sidestone Press, 2013. — 536 p. — (Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia 37/38). The Schipluiden site is a unique document for a crucial phase in the neolithisation process of the Lower Rhine Area. The rescue excavation profited from available funding for a full recovery of the site by a large multidisciplinary team. The site dates to c. 3500 cal BC and was situated on a low coastal...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 340 p. — (BAR International Series 2843). This book investigates the production technology and inter-site circulation of a large and diverse Late Neolithic ceramic assemblage from the flat-extended settlement of Makrygialos (Phase II), in northern Greece. Comparative samples from Dimini, in Thessaly, and Agrosykia A and Giannitsa B, in western Macedonia,...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 293 p. — (BAR International Series 2864). Questo volume è una sintesi dei sistemi di gestione degli strumenti in pietra non scheggiata di tre siti chiave della Cultura dei vasi a bocca quadrata dell’Italia nord-orientale. Gli strumenti sono stati studiati mediante un approccio integrato basato su morfologia, tecnologia, analisi delle tracce d’uso e...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 284 p. — (BAR International Series 2873). La culture Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain marque la fin des traditions danubiennes (Néolithique ancien) dans le nord de la France et en Belgique. Les onze sites étudiés sont localisés en Belgique. Deux aires d’implantation, distantes d’une centaine de km sont distinguées (en Hainaut et en Hesbaye). La mise en...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 219 p. — (BAR International Series 2876). El Prado es uno de los escasos yacimientos al aire libre del Neolítico Antiguo de la mitad norte peninsular. En la excavación arqueológica han sido documentadas cincuenta estructuras negativas asociadas a un poblado del Neolítico Antiguo con dataciones absolutas ca. 5295-4690 cal BC. Desde el punto de vista...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 314 p. — (BAR International Series 2905). This book presents an updated overview of the human occupation process of the Southern Central Pyrenees during the Neolithic. Data obtained from the analysis of the lithic assemblages from four sites (Cueva Chaves, Espluga de la Puyascada, Cova de Els Trocs, Cova del Sardo) located at different altitudes...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 356 p. — (BAR International Series 2913). El uso de brazaletes de piedra es uno de los fenómenos arqueológicos más destacado asociado a las primeras sociedades neolíticas en gran parte del Occidente Mediterráneo. Estos adornos se relacionan con el Neolítico Antiguo, caracterizado por el horizonte de las cerámicas decoradas cardiales y otras impresiones....
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 109 p. — (BAR International Series 2941). Despite Sardinia’s extraordinarily rich Neolithic record, very little of it has made its way into the general European discourse. Written as a companion to G. Webster and M. Webster, Punctuated Insularity. The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Sardinia . Oxford: BAR International Series 2871, 2017, the...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 224 p. — (BAR International Series 2972). This work broadens the current interpretative framework about communities living in the North- East of the Iberian Peninsula around the turn of the fifth and fourth millennia BC. The empirical foundation of this research is the analysis of polished and bevelled stone artefacts, found both in funerary and domestic...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 137 p. — (BAR International Series 2981). This book addresses a paradox concerning the role of clay at Çatalhöyük that arises from conflicting material culture and landscape views of what clay truly afforded this early agricultural community. The highly-developed and artistically rich clay-based material culture points to clay being a major contributor...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 245 p. — (BAR International Series 3001). During three millennia of the Neolithic in southeastern Europe important changes in the social organisation, everyday practices and beliefs formed a diverse and rich cultural landscape expressed in settlement patterns, architecture and numerous aspects of material culture. A growing body of data uncovered over...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 216 p. — (BAR International Series 3045/Archaeology of East Asia 5). Edited by Anke Hein and Andrew Womack This study focuses on Neolithic period Majiayao-style painted pottery from Northwest China, which is known for its high quality and beautiful décor. While much is known about the pottery, research on the associated Majiayao Culture has previously...
Sidestone Press, 2016. — 318 p. Cette monographie se propose de réaliser la synthèse des travaux menés entre 2000 et 2010 sur les productions de haches dans la vallée de la Seine à l’ouest de Paris. Le premier chapitre présente l’historiques des recherches, le cadre chrono-culturel et situe ces productions au sein de celles du Bassin parisien. Le second chapitre présente le...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1996. — 388 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 22; Çatalhöyük Research Project 1). After the excitement of its discovery and excavations in the early 1960s, the world-important site of Çatalhöyük has remained dormant for 30 years. This is Volume 1 of the Çatalhöyük Research Project series. It describes the...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2007. — 644 p. — (Çatalhöyük Research Project 3; British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 37). Ian Hodder's campaigns of excavation at the world-famous Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyuek are one of the largest, most complex, and most exciting archaeological field projects in the world and recognized as agenda-setting not...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2000. — 260 p. — (Çatalhöyük Research Project 2; British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 28). In the early 1990s the University of Cambridge reopened excavations at the Neolithic site of Catalhöyuek in central Turkey, abandoned since the 1960s. In this volume, Ian Hodder explains his vision of archaeological excavation,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2021. — 489 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 54; Çatalhöyük Research Project Series 14). The chapters in this volume describe the material artefacts recovered from the site, including a range of clay-based objects (ceramics, clay balls, tokens, figurines) as well as those made of stone, shell and textile....
Sidestone Press, 2014. — 348 p. La présente étude propose une approche technologique de la céramique rubanée, au travers de l’étude de huit sites localisés dans le quart nord-est de la France et en Belgique (5300-4900 av. J.C.). Les études typologiques de la céramique rubanée avaient abouti à une perception plutôt homogène des assemblages et l’analyse des décors avait permis la...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 338 p. The fifth millennium is characterized by far-flung contacts and a veritable flood of innovations. While its beginning is still strongly reminiscent of a broadly Linearbandkeramik way of life, at its end we find new, inter-regionally valid forms of symbolism, representation and ritual behaviour, changes in the settlement system, in architecture...
Sidestone Press, 2020. — 240 p. This volume takes its starting point from the increasingly frequent discovery of deliberately placed deposits on Early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik sites. This includes the placement of complete and still usable tools in the ground, as well as the creation of complex abandonment layers for example in wells or the destruction of immense material...
Sidestone Press, 2020. — 300 p. Throughout northern Europe, thousands of burial mounds were erected in the third millennium BCE. Starting in the Corded Ware culture, individual people were being buried underneath these mounds, often equipped with an almost rigid set of grave goods. This practice continued in the second half of the third millennium BCE with the start of the Bell...
Sidestone Press, 2024. — 156 S. — (ROOTS Studies 5). Bei einer Ausgrabung im havelländischen Lietzow in Brandenburg wurden jungsteinzeitliche Siedlungsbefunde entdeckt. Sie gehören zu zwei Hofstellen der jüngeren Linienbandkeramik, die um 5100-5000 v. u. Z. datiert. Die in der äußersten Peripherie des damaligen bäuerlichen Siedlungsgebiets gelegene Siedlung Lietzow 10 bestand...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 354 p. In 2015 at Dalfsen (the Netherlands) archaeologists made an amazing discovery. They found a burial ground dating from the TRB-period (3000-2750 BC) comprising 141 burial pits. The TRB is dated in the last phase of the Middle Neolithic period and is well known for its megalithic monuments which are widespread through large parts of northern...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 604 p. This book combines the latest studies of Near Eastern Neolithic lithics by leading international archaeologists to develop their analytical potential and advance our understanding of the world oldest farming societies of the Near East in human history. This volume presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery...
Sidestone Press, 2023. — 310 S. Das europäische Neolithikum zeichnet sich durch eine Vielzahl von Umgangsweisen mit menschlichen Körpern von Toten aus. Der archäologische Diskurs zu Mensch, Körper und Tod stützte sich für das Neolithikum traditionell jedoch auf Körperbestattungen. Dies ist unter anderem auf die in der westlichen Welt vorherrschende Idealvorstellung von...
Sidestone Press, 2023. — 224 p. — (PALMA: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 29). Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was a remarkable archaeologist whose work has transformed the study of later Neolithic societies in West Asia. He has inspired many colleagues and students in their own pursuit of archaeology. Through the analysis of material culture his aim was to...
Sidestone Press, 2020. — 546 p. — (STPAS: Scales of Transformation in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies 9). The early Neolithic site of Vráble (5250-4950 cal BCE) is among the largest LBK settlement agglomerations in Central Europe, and exceptional within the southwest Slovakian area. Geophysical surveys revealed more than 300 houses, grouped into three contemporary...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 348 S. — (STPAS: Scales of Transformation in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies 13). Dieses Buch behandelt die Frage, ob und wie sich soziale Identitäten in der deutschen Mittelgebirgszone zum Ende des 3. Jahrtausends v. Chr. veränderten. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass die Veränderungen der Bestattungssitten im Übergang vom Spät- zum Endneolithikum von...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 202 p. — (STPAS: Scales of Transformation in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies 15). This work is an intensive study of the Neolithic deposition of copper objects from Neuenkirchen in North-East Germany. This unique ensemble represents one of the very rare hoard finds from the early Early Neolithic, and is the first of its kind for nearly 100 years,...
Sidestone Press, 2023. — 398 p. — (STPAS: Scales of Transformation in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies 17). Around 3000 BCE, a turning point occurred in Europe: Long-existing regional societies entered into a process of transformation. The result is a world in which new global communication networks brought different regions closer together. From 3200/3100 BCE, the Globular...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 502 S. — (OSPA: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology 2). Seeufersiedlungen mit Feuchtbodenerhaltung sind für die Erforschung des Neolithikums des Alpenvorlandes von herausragender Bedeutung. Die ausserordentlich gute Erhaltung der Siedlungsschichten lässt weitgehende Einblicke in die Lebensweise der prähistorischen Menschen zu. Das Hinterland der...
Sidestone Press, 2023. — 512 S. — (OSPA: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology 3). Mobilität ist für Formen des sozialen Zusammenlebens grundlegend. Doch welche Rolle spielte räumliche Mobilität in der Vergangenheit? Aus prähistorischen Zeitabschnitten wie etwa dem Neolithikum ist dazu noch immer wenig bekannt. Das gilt auch für die Siedlungsräume des nördlichen...
Sidestone Press, 2023. — 296 p. — (OSPA: Open Series in Prehistoric Archaeology 5). Traditional archaeological ideas about Neolithic societies were shaped by questionable premises. The modern concept of social and cultural coherence of residence groups as well as the ethnic interpretation of ‘archaeological cultures’ fostered ideas of static and homogeneous social entities with...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 210 p. By Sara Garcês, Hipólito Collado Giraldo, José Julio García Arranz, George Nash, Pierluigi Rosina, Hugo Filipe Teixeira Gomes, Luiz Oosterbeek, Elena Garrido Fernández, Samuel Pérez Romero, José Enrique Capilla Nicolás, Maria Nicoli, Carmela Vaccaro, Salvatore Pepi El Dolmen de Soto está considerado como un de los principales monumentos funerarios...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 217 p. — (BAR International Series 2440). An Introduction to the study of henges: time for a change? - Alex Gibson Henging, mounding and blocking: the Forteviot henge group -Kenneth Brophy & Gordon Noble Henges in Ireland: new discoveries and emerging issues - Muiris O'Sullivan, Stephen Davies & Geraldine Stout Journeys and Juxtapositions. Marden Henge...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 290 p. Lithic Studies: Anatolia and Beyond aims to show networks of cultural interactions by focusing on the latest lithic studies from Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans, bringing to the forefront the connectedness and techno-cultural continuity of knapped and ground stone technologies. Lithic studies are mostly conducted on a site by site basis, and...
Oxbow Books, 1997. — 201 p. — (Oxbow Monograph 74). The excavations at Silbury Hill in the late 1960s were broadcast to the world on television and generated a huge amount of excitement, but until now have not been published. This report gives a full account of the excavation and discusses the archaeological and environmental evidence from the tunnel, the ditch section and the...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 594 p. Les mégalithes du département du Morbihan vise à une meilleure compréhension du mégalithisme, ou plus précisément des mégalithismes et présente une nouvelle approche des articulations entre les pierres dressées (menhirs) et les espaces sépulcraux (dolmens). Les analyses architecturales développées soulèvent, en effet, des questions sur leur...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 207 p. — (Prehistoric Society Research Paper 6). The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The substantial Early Neolithic timber house was a short-lived...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 202 p. — (Prehistoric Society Research Paper 12). This new title in the acclaimed Prehistoric Society Research Papers series focuses on the introduction of Neolithic extraction practices across Europe through to the Atlantic periphery of Britain and Ireland. The key research questions are when and why these practices were adopted, and what role extraction...
Windgather Press, 2021. — 329 p. In this book we offer an exciting new perspective on a distinctive form of megalithic monument that is found across most areas of northern Europe. In order to achieve this we have abandoned outmoded typological classifications and reintroduced the term ‘dolmen’ to embrace a range of sites that share a common form of megalithic architecture: the...
Windgather Press, 2021. — 329 p. In this book we offer an exciting new perspective on a distinctive form of megalithic monument that is found across most areas of northern Europe. In order to achieve this we have abandoned outmoded typological classifications and reintroduced the term ‘dolmen’ to embrace a range of sites that share a common form of megalithic architecture: the...