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ArchAtlas: Archaeological Atlas Project - http://www.archatlas.dept.shef.ac.uk/
Uses satellite images and electronic mapping to interpret the location and spread of early farming and urban communities across the world. |
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Ancient Neolithic Architecture - http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/neolithic.html
Great Buildings Online gives images, with commentary and sources, of outstanding monuments built by Neolithic societies: Stonehenge and the Temple at Tarxien, Malta. |
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The Neolithic Mosaic on the North European Plain - http://www.princeton.edu/~bogucki/mosaic.html
This essay examines the issue of migration among Neolithic peoples and how this shaped cultural developments during this period in Europe. |
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First Farmers With No Taste for Grain - http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba12/ba12feat.html#richards
Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat to cereals, writes Mike Richards in British Archaeology. |
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The Neolithic Diaspora in Europe - http://www.princeton.edu/~bogucki/saa1997.html
An article that describes the migration and dispersal of farmers and the adoption of crops and livestock by indigenous foragers. |
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The Agricultural Revolution - http://www.missouri.edu/~socbrent/agrirev.htm
A brief summary from Idea Works of the factors involved in the spread of agriculture. |
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Neolithic Turkey - http://www.turizm.net/turkey/history/neolithic.html
An essay describing several prominent archaeological sites in Turkey. |
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The Origins of Agriculture as a Natural Experiment in Cultural Evolution - http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/Origins_Ag_IV3.htm
An article by Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Robert L. Bettinger that speculates on evolutionary factors driving the Neolithic Revolution. |
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How Agriculture Came to Central Europe - http://www.princeton.edu/~bogucki/saa1995.html
Paper presented by Peter Bogucki at the annual meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995. |
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The Slow Birth of Agriculture - http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/neolithic_agriculture.htm
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. |
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The Origins of Agriculture - http://www.ku.edu/~hoopes/agri.html
An annotated collection of links on the origin of food production. |
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Gardening History Timeline - From Ancient Times - http://www.gardendigest.com/timegl.htm#Start
Provides a general overview of global plant domesitication beginning in the Neolithic. Includes archaeological discoveries in both Old and New worlds. |
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Hairy Clues to the Iceman's Diet - http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1200/1998_Nov_7/53280921/print.jhtml
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. |
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Study Suggests Neolithic Migration - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/09/020911072622.htm
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. |
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Evolution of Crop Plants - http://agronomy.ucdavis.edu/gepts/pb143/pb143.htm
Course materials in on the Neolithic Revolution from the University of California, Davis. |
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Origins and Ancient History of Wines - http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/online_exhibits/wine/wineneolithic.html
A description of the Neolithic origins of wine. |
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Neolithic Studies Group - http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/neolithic/nsgnews.htm
Loose-knit group of archaeologists, mainly from Britain and the Atlantic seaboard countries of the European Union, with an interest in the Neolithic period. Gives details of meetings and publications. |
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Human Biology and the First Farmers of Western Europe - http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ant/071/Ant0710639.htm
Mary Jackes, David Lubell and Christopher Meiklejohn discuss the effects of the transition to agriculture on human health. |
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Commemorating the dead, Neolithic style - http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9806
From The Daily Star, a reinterpretation of Neolithic plastered skulls from Jordan, Syria, Israel and Turkey is changing the way scholars think about cult, death and the afterlife in the Neolithic and the ancient Middle East. |