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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Neolithic Turkey
An essay describing several prominent archaeological sites in Turkey.
http://www.turizm.net/turkey/history/neolithic.html
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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
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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
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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
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Evolution of Crop Plants
Course materials in on the Neolithic Revolution from the University of California, Davis.
http://agronomy.ucdavis.edu/gepts/pb143/pb143.htm
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