How Agriculture Came to Central Europe Peter Bogucki School of Engineering and Applied Science Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-5263 USA bogucki@pucc.princeton.edu Paper presented at the annual meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995. Please do not circulate or quote until publication in final form. Introduction Agriculture came to central Europe somewhat over 7,000 years ago. In the last century of archaeological research, we have b ...

British Archaeology, no 21, February 1997: Features Chew, chew, that ancient chewing gum A slovenly modern habit? Or one of the world's oldest pastimes? Elizabeth Aveling explains The chewing of gum is often thought of as a modern habit, imported to Europe from America this century. In fact, however, chewing gum has a long history stretching back at least 9,000 years, and tar-like materials were commonly chewed throughout much of northern Europe from at least the Early Mesolithic perio ...

Castles Are Rubbish copyright © by Daniel Mersey Using Material Evidence From Excavations to Give an Overall View of Daily Life The title of this article is not my poisoned little view on medieval architecture - it is a comment that nicely sums up the last use of the majority of recovered artefacts at castle sites. As we shall see further on in this piece, most of the valuable items in a castle were removed upon its' abandonment, leaving the site as a glorified rubbish tip - only unwant ...

Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory Welcome to the world of the late stone age hunter gatherers. This exhibition takes you into the lives of the inhabitants of Britain and north west Europe from the time when ice sheets still covered land and sea, until the time when settled farming peoples were cultivating the land. Against the background of this changing world, people survived by hunting game and gathering food from the plants around them; on the move, following the herds a ...

Stonehenge, stone circles, dolmens, ancient standing stones, cairns, barrows, hillforts and archaeology of megalithic Europe Over the last 14 years we have personally visited and photographed all 529 archæological sites you will find in these pages (117 in the six national sections and 412 in our Tours section), creating the first Web guide to European megaliths and other prehistoric sites, online since February 1996 SHOP ARCHAEONEWS TOURS PREHISTORAMA FORUMS GLOSSARY MEGALINKS FEEDBACK FAQ ABOUT US Site created and maintained by Paola Arosio & Diego Meozzi Contact us • Copyright Statement Subscribe to our FREE Archaeo News newsletter:Last updated: 3 April 2006 Last month (March 2006) we had 242,032 unique visitors and we served 789,425 pages

Archaeology and development: new Council of Europe code of practice Irish archaeological heritage policy Some problems of heritage documentation and management in India, S. P. Gupta New science-based archaeology society An exciting new development: calcined bones can be 14C-dated, J.N. Lanting & A. L. Brindleyo The history of European archaeology New information service New journal from IUPPS/IUSPP Funding for conferences Digging in the dirt, Geoff Carver Lisbon in S ...

ICA HOME ABOUT ICA PROJECTS & PROGRAMS FIELD SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES NEWS The Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) carries out multi-disciplinary archaeological research, conservation, and cultural resource management projects in the territory of ancient Greek colonies in southern Italy and on the Black Sea coast of Ukraine. ICA was established as a research unit in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, Austin, in 1974. Over ...

The Neolithic Diaspora in Europe Peter Bogucki School of Engineering and Applied Science Princeton University bogucki@pucc.princeton.edu March 25, 1997 Abstract: The spread of farming across Europe between 8,000 and 5,000 years ago was the result of two processs: the migration and dispersal of farmers and the adoption of crops and livestock by indigenous foragers. In some regions, one of these processes clearly predominated, while in others is it not clear which one played the major role ...