...Major subsequent modifications and revisions have been made to Arthur Evans's pottery sequence, but his suggested tripartite division of the Neolithic period and the Minoan period is still by and large in use. Most scholars are also using a parallel, broader, and more simplified division...

...The northern Aegean communities were dynamic partakers of the cultural processes that transformed southeast Europe and the Aegean during the Neolithic period until the end of the fifth millennium. During the third millennium, however, the dramatic developments in settlement organization...

...This articledescribes the key developments in the Levant during the Neolithic Period. During this period, the people of the Levant began to live in sedentary communities and farm for the first time. Economic relationships gradually emerged in a fairly uniform manner across the region...

...This article analyses developments in Cyprus in relation to the Levant during the Neolithic Period. It explains that Cyprus was rarely included in debates on the prehistory of the Levant because of a lack of archaeological evidence and that the first relative chronology for Cyprus was constructed...

...This book presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 bc. Unlike other lines of evidence — weapons, fortifications, and imagery — the human skeleton preserves the actual marks of past...

...This articlefocuses on the situation and major developments in northern Levant during the Neolithic Period. It examines the nature and scale of settlement in Syria and Lebanon during the Neolithicand their implications for occupation in other parts of the Levant.Throughout the Neolithic,a number...

... Neolithic period by analogy with other European regions, it was immediately clear that this was a phase of village-dwelling farmers, the Aegean's first agricultural society. In what has become a modern origin myth for Western society, the development of agriculture and sedentism was viewed as an escape from...

...This article states that traditionally, the story of the Early Bronze Age of Crete has been one constructed between two pivotal points of change. The first, at the Neolithic period—Early Minoan I transition, is viewed as the birth of a culture considered to be definably Minoan, fostered by a major...

... tools—was being brought from its principal Aegean source on the island of Melos to Franchthi Cave in the Argolid. From the Neolithic period onward, interactions between the Cycladic Islands and neighboring lands were frequent. The Cyclades were significant in the Archaic period of Greece's civilization...

.... The earliest sign of frequentation dates back to the Final Neolithic period and is contemporary with the most recent of the ten levels identified in the test pits opened beneath the palace at Knossos. agriculture archive s Ayia Triada Homer Kastri Knossos limestone Linear B Mesara palace Phaistos...

... La Draga Sickles Enclave settlement Zilhão João Los Canes Los Cascajos Megalithic tombs Roe deer Fairen Jiménez Sara Rock art Alps Hybridization Neolithic economy Amesbury Early Neolithic period Mesolithic-Neolithic transition southern Europe agriculture material culture archaeology...

... multiple burial San Juan ante Portam Latinam cut marks defleshing depression dismemberment domestic violence ritualized adolescent Pontharaud interpersonal violence human skeletons Neolithic period European Neolithic John Thurnam, a nineteenth century medical doctor with a strong interest...

... Britain and Ireland, including wooden pins found during excavation of the Sweet Track in the Somerset Levels, along with wooden mallets of various shapes and sizes, fragmentary carved bowls and boxes from the Neolithic period and Bronze Age, and bowls and dishes from the late Iron Age. Beaters Boxes...

... between the preceding Final Neolithic period and the ensuing Middle Bronze Age. In close to ninety years of archaeology on mainland Greece, little has altered Carl Blegen's main outline of the EH period. Admittedly, the historical conclusions were modified since Blegen believed that a dramatic...

...Funeral practices were already well developed before the start of the Neolithic period. As the population increased with the growth of settlements, one would expect more graves. However, the number of excavated Neolithic burials can be counted in the hundreds, whereas tens of thousands of people...

...This articledescribes major development in the southern Levant, or Cisjordan, during the Neolithic Period. This period witnessed significant demographic growth when village communities were established, subsisting first on cultivation and foraging, then on agriculture, and finally on agro...

...This articleexamines the condition of southern Levant or Transjordan during various phases of the Neolithic Period. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) represents the first fragile appearance of Neolithic village settlements in the southern Levant, while the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) represents...

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...This chapter examines tombs and stone monuments in Brittany during the Late Neolithic Period. It describes different tomb types and their relationship to variations in funerary practices and highlights the presence of engraved motifs and features carved in raised relief in Neolithic megalithic...