The study of the Neolithic transition constitutes a major theme in prehistoric research as the process of economic change, from foraging to farming involved one of the main transformations in human behavior patterns. This volume focuses on investigating the neolithization process at the periphery of one of the main routes in the expansion of the Neolithic in Europe: the Western Mediterranean area. Recent advances in archaeometric analysis, biomolecular techniques and radiocarbon dating, together with new archaeological discoveries, have provided novel insights into this subject.
This volume is organized in five main sections:
<1)new discoveries and new ideas from the Mediterranean Neolithic
2)reconstructing times and modeling processes
3) landscape interaction: farming and herding
4) dietary subsistence of early farming communities
5) human dispersal and cultural transmission
This synthesis will also provide new data to assess the theoretical aspects, such as evolutionary theory, human behavioral archaeology, narratives archaeologies that underlie the models put forward to explain the expansion of farming from the Middle East into Europe.