Neolithic Europe is a wide-ranging, thematic survey of the archaeological evidence for the period 8000-2000 BC. The last hunting and food collecting societies of Europe are discussed, but the book's main coverage is the Neolithic period, when agriculture was adopted as the dominant force in European society. Dr Whittle's treatment is systematic: covering Greece and the Balkans, the central and western Mediterranean, central and western Europe. Each chapter ,reviews the nature of the eviden
| ISBN: | 9780521289702 |
| Publication date: | 27th June 1985 |
| Author: | A W R Whittle |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 363 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge World Archaeology |
| Genres: |
Archaeology by period / region |