Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
1: Chris Fowler, Jan Harding, and Daniela Hofmann: Defining the 'Neolithic in Europe': Diverse and Contemporaneous Communities, c. 6500-2500 BC
Part II: Mobility, Change, and Interaction at the Large Scale
2: Tony Brown, Geoff Bailey, and Dave Passmore: Environments and Landscape Change
Movement of Plants, Animals, Ideas, and People
3: Joannes Müller: South-East Europe
4: Jean Guilaine: The Neolithization of Mediterranean Europe: Mobility and Interactions from the Near East to the Iberian Peninsula
5: Wolfram Schier: Central and Eastern Europe
6: Anne Tresset: Moving Animals and Plants in the Early Neolithic of North-Western Europe
7: Stephen Shennan: Language, Genes, and Cultural Interaction
Sequences of Cultural Interaction and Cultural Change
8: John Chapman: South-East Europe
9: Caroline Malone: The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe
10: Detlef Gronenborn and Pavel Dolukhanov DR: Central and Eastern Europe
11: Nick Thorpe: Northern and Western Europe
Part III: Neolithic Worlds and Neolithic Lifeways
Houses, Habitation, and Community
12: Pál Raczky: Tells and Settlements in South-East Europe
13: Demetra Papaconstantinou: Domestic Space in the Mediterranean
14: Jonathan Last: Longhouse Lifestyles in the Central European Neolithic
15: Francesco Menotti: Lakeside Dwellings of the Circum-Alpine Region
16: Anick Coudart: Households and Communities in Neolithic France
17: Kenneth Brophy: Houses, Halls, and Occuptation in Britain and Ireland
18: Mats Larsson: Places of Settlement in Southern Scandanavia
Subsistence and Social Routine
19: Rich Schulting: Stable Isotopes and Neolithic Subsistence: Pattern and Variation
20: Amy Bogaard: Subsistence Practices and Social Routine in Neolithic Southern Europe
21: László Bartosiewicz and Malcolm Lillie: Subsistence Practices in Central and Eastern Europe
22: Tony Legge DR and Peter Rowley-Conwy: Subsistence Practices in Western and Northern Europe
23: Dimitrij Mleku%z: The Neolithic Year
24: Roy Loveday: Religious Routine and Pilgrimage in the British Isles
Materiality and Social Relations
25: Marjorie de Grooth: Invention and European Knapping Traditions
26: Pedro Díaz-del-Río and Mara Capote: Shared Labour and Large Scale Action: European Flint Mining
27: Gabriel Cooney: Stone and Flint Axes in Neolithic Europe
28: Mihael Budja: Pottery of South-East Europe
29: Joachim Pechtl: Linearbandkeramik Pottery and Society
30: Rick Peterson and Johannes Müller: Ceramics and Society in Northern Europe
31: Marc Vander Linden: Bell Beaker Pottery and Society
32: Stratos Nanoglou: A Miniature World: Models and Figurines in South-East Europe
33: John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska: Spondylus and Shell Ornaments
34: Tony Axelsson, Morten Ramstad, and Anders Strinnholm: Amber
35: Volker Heyd and Katherine Walker: The First Metalwork and Expressions of Social Power
36: Mark Pearce and Martin Bartelheim: Early Metallurgy in Iberia and the Western Mediterranean
37: Ben Roberts and Catherine Frieman: Early Metallurgy in Western and Northern Europe
38: Duncan Garrow: Deposition in Pits
39: Arkadiusz Marciniak and Joshua Pollard: Animals and Social Relations
Monuments, Rock Art, and Cosmology
40: Jörg Petrasch: Central European Enclosures
41: Robin Skeates: Italian Enclosures
42: Niels Andersen: Causewayed Enclosures in Northern and Western Europe
43: Vicki Cummings, Magdalena Midgeley DR, and Chris Scarre: Chambered Tombs and Passage Graves of Northern and Western Europe
44: Sara Fairen-Jiminez: Rock Carvings in Iberia
45: Angelo Fossati: Rock Carvings in South Central Europe
46: Andrew Cochrane, Andrew Jones, and Kalle Sognnes: Rock Carvings in Northern Europe
47: Robin Skeates: Underground Religion in the Central Mediterranean Neolithic
48: Michael Hoskin: A Place in the Cosmos: Monuments and Celestial Bodies
Death, Bodies, and Persons
49: Du%san Bori'c: Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in the Neolithic and Early-Middle Copper Ages of South-East Europe
50: John Robb: Burial and Human Body Representations in the Central Mediterranean Neolithic
51: Daniela Hofmann and Jörg Orschiedt: Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in Central Europe
52: Karl-Göran Sjögren: Mortuary Practices, Bodies, and Persons in North-East Europe
53: Chris Fowler and Chris Scarre: Mortuary Practices and Bodily Representations in North-West Europe
Part IV: Conclusion: Debates in Neolithic Archaeology
54: Alasdair Whittle: Unexpected Histories? South-East and Central Europe
55: Julian Thomas: What Do We Mean By 'Neolithic Societies'?
56: Kristian Kristiansen: The Decline of the Neolithic and the Rise of the Bronze Age Society

About the Author

Chris Fowler, Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University.
Jan Harding, Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University. Daniela Hofmann, Junior Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Hamburg University.

Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe represents an important contribution to world literature.
*Jaromír Bene and Tereza Majerovicová, IANSA: Interdisciplinaria archaeologica*

The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe is a great scholarly achievement and a valuable offering essential to everyone interested in the archaeology of the European Neolithic.
*Evita Kalogiropoulou, European Journal of Archaeology*