Book Review: Looking back at the Neolithic transition in Europe

AMMERMANN, A.J. and L.L. CAVALLI-SFORZA , 1984. The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press .

BELLWOOD, P. , 2005. First Farmers. The Origins of Agricultural Societies. Oxford: Blackwell .

CLARK, J.G.D. 1965. Radiocarbon dating and the spread of farming economy . Antiquity 31: 57–73 .

CHIKHI, L. , R.A. NICHOLS , G. BARBUJANI and M.A. BEAUMONT , 2002. Y genetic data support the Neolithic demic diffusion model . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 99: 11,008–11,013 .

DENNELL, R. 1983. European Economic Prehistory: A New Approach. London: Academic Press .

FIX, A.G. , 1996. Gene frequency clines in Europe: demic diffusion or natural selection? Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2(4): 625–643 .

GKIASTA, M. , T. RUSSEL , S. SHENNAN and J. STEELE , 2003. Neolithic transition in Europe: the radiocarbon record revisited . Antiquity 77: 45–62 .

GIMBUTAS, M. , S. WINN and D. SHIMABUKU 1989. Achilleion: A Neolithic Settlement in Thessaly, Greece, 6400–5600 BC. Los Angeles: University of California, Institute of Archaeology (Monumenta Archaeologica 14).

GRONENBORN, D. , 2004. Comparing contact-period archaeologies: the expansion of farming and pastoralist societies to continental temperate Europe and to southern Africa . Before Farming 2003(3): 1–35 .

GUILAINE, J. , 2003. De la vague à la tombe. La conquête Néolithique de la Méditerranée. Paris: Éditions du Seuil .

KING, P. and P.A. UNDERHILL , 2002. Congruent distribution of Neolithic painted pottery and ceramic figurines with Y-chromosome lineages . Antiquity 76: 707–713 .

LAHR , M.M. , R. FOLEY and R. PINHASI , 2000. Expected regional patterns of Mesolithic–Neolithic human population admixture in Europe based on archaeological evidence. In C. Renfrew and K. Boyle (eds), Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe, 81–88. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research .

LUKES, A. and M. ZVELEBIL (eds), 2004. LBK Dialogues: Studies in the Formation of the Linear Pottery Culture. Oxford: Archaeopress, BAR International Series 1304 .

NEUSTUPNÝ, E. , 2004. Remarks on the origin of the Linear Pottery Culture. In Lukes, A. and M. Zvelebil (eds), LBK Dialogues: Studies in the Formation of the Linear Pottery Culture: 3–5. Oxford: Archaeopress, BAR International Series 1304 .

RICHARDS, M. and V. MACAULAY , 2000. Genetic data and the colonization of Europe: genealogies and founders. In C. Renfrew and K. Boyle (eds), Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe: 139–151. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research .

ROWLEY-CONWY , P. , 1996. Why didn't Westropp's Mesolithic catch on in 1872? Antiquity 70: 940–944 .

THEOCHARIS, D. 1973. Neolithic Greece. Athens: National Bank of Greece .

ZVELEBIL, M. 1986. Mesolithic societies and the transition to farming: problems of time, scale and organisation. In M. Zvelebil (ed.), Hunters in Transition: 167–188. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .

ZVELEBIL, M. 1998 Genetic and cultural diversity of Europe. A comment on Cavalli-Sforza . Journal of Anthropological Research 54(3): 411–416 .

ZVELEBIL, M. , 2000. The social context of the agricultural transition in Europe. In C. Renfrew and K. Boyle (eds), Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe: 57–79. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research .