Web Directory

» Aegean and Cyprus in the Early Holocene: Brothers or Distant Relatives?
   Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 1(1). This paper discusses the neolithication of the Aegean as opposed to Cyprus.
   http://www.stellakatsarou.gr/appdata/documents/8/8.pdf

» Ancient Neolithic Architecture
   Great Buildings Online gives images, with commentary and sources, of outstanding monuments built by Neolithic societies: Stonehenge and the Temple at Tarxien, Malta.
   http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/neolithic.html

» ArchAtlas: Archaeological Atlas Project
   Uses satellite images and electronic mapping to interpret the location and spread of early farming and urban communities across the world.
   http://www.archatlas.dept.shef.ac.uk/

» Archaeology of the Neolithic Levant and Nomadic Pastoralism
   This site documents current research in the Neolithic of the southern levant, with especial regard to ancient pastoral societies.
   http://www.public.asu.edu/%7eiullah/index.html

» Commemorating the dead, Neolithic style
   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.
   http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9806

» Domestication of the Horse
   An article describing the Neolithic origins of the domesticated horse.
   http://www.imh.org/history.php?pageid=9

» Evolution of Crop Plants
   Course materials in on the Neolithic Revolution from the University of California, Davis.
   http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/gepts/pb143/pb143.htm

» First Farmers With No Taste for Grain
   Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat to cereals, writes Mike Richards in British Archaeology.
   http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba12/ba12feat.html#richards

» Gardening History Timeline - From Ancient Times
   Provides a general overview of global plant domesitication beginning in the Neolithic. Includes archaeological discoveries in both Old and New worlds.
   http://www.gardendigest.com/timegl.htm#Start

» Hairy Clues to the Iceman's Diet
   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.
   http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1200/1998_Nov_7/53280921/print.jhtml

» How Agriculture Came to Central Europe
   Paper presented by Peter Bogucki at the annual meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995.
   http://www.princeton.edu/~bogucki/saa1995.html

» Human Biology and the First Farmers of Western Europe
   Mary Jackes, David Lubell and Christopher Meiklejohn discuss the effects of the transition to agriculture on human health.
   http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ant/071/Ant0710639.htm

» Neolithic Activity in South Essex, UK
   Provides information on the Neolithic monuments, especially the causewayed enclosure at Orsett, and the remains of Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon and Mediaeval settlements in Essex.
   http://finestprospect.org.uk/Neolithic/Neolithic.htm

» Neolithic Studies Group
   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.
   http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/neolithic/nsgnews.htm

» Neolithic Turkey
   An essay describing several prominent archaeological sites in Turkey.
   http://www.turizm.net/turkey/history/neolithic.html

» Origins and Ancient History of Wines
   A description of the Neolithic origins of wine.
   http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/online_exhibits/wine/wineneolithic.html

» Study Suggests Neolithic Migration
   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.
   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/09/020911072622.htm

» The Agricultural Revolution
   A brief summary from Idea Works of the factors involved in the spread of agriculture.
   http://www.missouri.edu/~socbrent/agrirev.htm

» The Neolithic Diaspora in Europe
   An article that describes the migration and dispersal of farmers and the adoption of crops and livestock by indigenous foragers.
   http://www.princeton.edu/~bogucki/saa1997.html

» The Neolithic Mosaic on the North European Plain
   This essay examines the issue of migration among Neolithic peoples and how this shaped cultural developments during this period in Europe.
   http://www.princeton.edu/~bogucki/mosaic.html

» The Origins of Agriculture
   An annotated collection of links on the origin of food production.
   http://www.ku.edu/~hoopes/agri.html

» The Origins of Agriculture as a Natural Experiment in Cultural Evolution
   An article by Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Robert L. Bettinger that speculates on evolutionary factors driving the Neolithic Revolution.
   http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/Origins_Ag_IV3.htm

» The Slow Birth of Agriculture
   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.
   http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/neolithic_agriculture.htm