This book evaluates competing models of early crop husbandry in Central Europe using available archaeobotanical evidence.

Knowledge of the origin and spread of farming has been revolutionised in recent years by the application of new scientific techniques, especially the analysis o

Essays by leading specialists on a central issue of European history: the transition to farming.

The Neolithic --a period in which the first sedentary agrarian communities were established across much of Europe--has been a key topic of archaeological resear

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domestication and agric