Product Description: Problems in Neolithic Archaeology is a notable contribution to the debate about how we can write prehistory. Drawing on both processual and post-processual approaches, it reaffirms the central role of theory and interpretation while accepting as permanent the uncertainty which makes the testing of archaeological hypotheses difficult or even impossible...read more

Product Description: Living Well Together investigates the development of the Neolithic in southeast and central Europe from 6500-3500 cal BC with special reference to the manifestations of settling down. A collection of reports and comments on recent fieldwork in the region, Living Well Together? provides 14 tightly written and targeted papers presenting interpretive discussions from important excavations and reassessments of our understanding of the Neolithic...read more

Product Description: This book takes a fresh look at the European Neolithic and asks pertinent questions about the way in which we study it. By unsettling accepted notions regarding sedentism and the onset of farming, the contributors are able to show that many ideas which are taken as read may need re-evaluating in the light of new modes of thinking...read more

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Product Description: Neolithic Europe is a wide-ranging, thematic survey of the archaeological evidence for the period 8000-2000 BC. The last hunting and food collecting societies of Europe are discussed, but the book's main coverage is the Neolithic period, when agriculture was adopted as the dominant force in European society...read more