Archaeopress, 2022. — 322 p. The Bell Beaker Culture in All its Forms contains the proceedings of the 22nd meeting of the ‘Archéologie et Gobelets’ Association which took place in Geneva, Switzerland in January 2021. The book is structured in three parts: Archaeological Material demonstrates how ceramics, lithics, wrist guards, and metal artifacts contribute to our...
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...
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...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1998. — 167 p. — (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Monograph series 13). Cleaven Dyke was for some centuries identified as a Roman construction. However, the authors' surveys and excavations strongly suggest that it was built as part of the Neolithic cursus monument tradition. The volume presents the comprehensive results of their study,...
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...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 93 p. Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World Congress (1–7 September 2014, Burgos, Spain) Volume 13/Session A25a Scholars who will study the historiography of the European Neolithic, more particularly with regards to the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, will observe a progressive change in the core understanding of this...
Archaeopress Publishing, 2021. — 293 p. Au large des côtes atlantiques vendéennes (France), l’île d’Yeu est un territoire occupé depuis la Préhistoire. Les sites à vocations domestiques, artisanales, funéraires ou encore symboliques datés du Néolithique sont nombreux. Leur état de conservation est exceptionnel car les architectures bâties en pierre sont préservées en élévation...
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...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — 128 p. — (Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers 9). This book is the ninth published collection of papers from a Neolithic Studies Group day conference, and it continues the Group's aim of presenting research on the Neolithic of all parts of the British Isles. The topic - regional diversity - is an important theme in Neolithic studies today, and embraces...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 341 p. Archaeologists show us how the Neolithic human lived in mainland Scotland What was life like in Scotland between 4000 and 2000BC? Where were people living? How did they treat their dead? Why did they spend so much time building extravagant ritual monuments? What was special about the relationship people had with trees and holes in the...
ASCSA, 1977. — 299 p. — (Keos: results of excavations conducted by the University of Cincinnati 1). This is the first volume in the final publication of the University of Cincinnati's investigations on the island of Keos. It describes the excavation of a small site on the headland of Kephala, about one kilometer north of the Bronze Age site of Ayia Irini. Remains of both a...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 220 p. Bâtisseurs de mégalithes vise à mettre au point et tester une nouvelle méthodologie pour comprendre le phénomène mégalithique européen du 5e au 3e millénaire av. J.-C. L’ouest de la France s’est avéré être un excellent terrain pour l’adaptation et l’application d’une méthodologie jusque-là réservée aux périodes historiques : l’archéologie du bâti....
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...
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...
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...
Departement für Erziehung und Kultur des Kantons Thurgau, 2002. — 388 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 11). In diesem Band werden die Funde der j ungsteinzeitlichen Seeufersiedlung Arbon I Bleiche 3 vorgelegt. Die einzelnen Artefaktgmppen werden beschrieben und mit den Siedlungsstrukturen in Beziehung gesetzt. Das umfangreiche Inventar bildet ein wichtiges Referenzmaterial für die...
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, 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...
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, 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...
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory), 2013. — 247 p. — (Prehistory Monographs 42). The site of Knossos on the Kephala hill in central Crete is of great archaeological and historical importance for both Greece and Europe. Dating to 7000 B.C., it is the home of one of the earliest farming societies in southeastern Europe, and, in the later Bronze Age periods,...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 220 p. Le site néolithique de Tinqueux « la Haubette » (Marne) daté du « Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain » (5000-4700 cal. BC) a livré cinq maisons, ainsi que des fosses et une structure de combustion. Les éléments de la culture matérielle abondants ont permis d’approfondir différentes problématiques. La première traite de la singularité du site en raison...
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...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 290 p. Just six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Ireland’s great Neolithic henge monuments: the 200 m wide Giant’s Ring. For over a thousand years, this area was the focus of intense funerary ritual seemingly designed to send the dead to their ancestors and secure the land for the...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 290 p. Just six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Ireland’s great Neolithic henge monuments: the 200 m wide Giant’s Ring. For over a thousand years, this area was the focus of intense funerary ritual seemingly designed to send the dead to their ancestors and secure the land for the...
Departement für Erziehung und Kultur des Kantons Thurgau, 2006. — 199 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 13). In dieser Veröffentlichung wird über die Grabungen berichtet, die in den Jahren 1962 und 1963 vom Biologisch-Archaeologisch Jnstituut der Universität Groningen in der neolithischen Moorsiedlung im Egelsee, zwischen Niederwil und Strass in der Ortsgemeinde Gachnang, Kanton...
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...
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...
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,...
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 2022. — 752 p. — (British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 56; Çatalhöyük Research Project Series 12). This volume discusses the main excavations at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East undertaken from 2009 to 2017. The site is well known because of its large size, elaborate symbolism and wall paintings, and long history of...
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, 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, 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....
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,...
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, 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, 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...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 632 p. Greek text The objective of this book is the reconsideration of the practices of personal adornment during the Neolithic period in Greece, through the assemblage, extensive bibliographic documentation, and critical evaluation of all the available data deriving from more than a hundred sites in the mainland and the Aegean islands –an archaeological...
Departement für Erziehung und Kultur des Kantons Thurgau, 2004. — 464 S. — (Archäologie im Thurgau 12). Im dritten Band über «Die jungsteinzeitliche Seeufersiedlung Arbon I Bleiche 3» untersuchten 27 Archäologen und Naturwissenschaftlerinnen «Umwelt und Wirtschaft» der einstigen neolithischen Lebensgemeinschaft am Ufer des Bodensees. Diese erstmals interdisziplinär angelegte...
WBG (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft), 2021. — 114 S. LWL-Museum für Archäologie, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Herne (Hrsg.) Reisen zu den Anfängen Europas: Megalithische Grabstätten und Monumente Menhire, Dolmen und Großsteingräber beeindrucken uns bis heute. Die Megalithbauten - zu denen auch Steinkreise, Steinreihen, Steinkisten und Einzelmonumente gehören - stammen aus der...
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, 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...