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- Aceramic Neolithic of Turkey - A virtual gallery of the Interactive Museum of Turkey.
sanat.bilkent.edu.tr/imot/neolithic
- Agricultural Revolution - A learning module from Washington State University.
www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_agrev/agrev-index.html
- Ancient Chinese Rice Archaeological Project - Study of rice in Neolithic and Epi-Palaeolithic archaeological paddy sites on the middle Yangtze River by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
www.carleton.ca/~bgordon/Rice
- 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.
www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/neolithic.html
- Discovery Channel: Ultimate Guide: Iceman - Information about the film with the same title, as well as the latest news, including a photo gallery, and an overview of the forensic evidence.
dsc.discovery.com/convergence/iceman/iceman.html
- Domestication - An overview of the domestication process.
www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs/TMI/HCS210/HortOrigins/BrDomestic.html
- Domestication of the Horse - An article describing the Neolithic origins of the domesticated horse.
www.imh.org/imh/kyhpl1b.html
- Evolution of Crop Plants - Course materials in on the Neolithic Revolution from the University of California, Davis.
agronomy.ucdavis.edu/gepts/pb143/pb143.htm
- Faiyum Neolithic Artifacts - A gallery of stone tools from the Faiyum Oasis of Egypt dated to approximately 4200 - 3800 BC.
www.beloit.edu/~museum/logan/paleoexhibit/neonafrica.htm
- First Farmers With No Taste for Grain - Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat to cereals, writes Mike Richards in British Archaeology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
intarch.ac.uk/antiquity/jackes/printed.html
- Murky Waters in the Most Ancient East - An essay with references by Mike Shupp on the status of V. Gordon Childe's view of the Neolithic Revolution in anthropological theory today.
www.csun.edu/~ms44278/neo_rev.htm
- Neolithic in Eurasia - An overview by Geraldine Reinhardt that concentrates on the Neolithic period in Eurasia.
www.alekseevmanuscript.com/ChapterVI.html
- Neolithic North Africa - An article describing the importance of North Africa as one of the main corridors of Neolithic diffusion into Europe.
www.fikas.no/~sprocket/snpa/chapter-IV5.htm
- Neolithic of Cyprus - A short article on the Neolithic Periods I & II of Cyprus.
www.cosmosnet.net/cyprus/history/hist2.htm
- Neolithic Studies Group - A loose-knit collectivity of archaeologists, mainly from Britain and the Atlantic seaboard countries of the European Union, with an interest in the Neolithic period.
csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/consci/text/nsghome.htm
- Neolithic Turkey - An essay describing several prominent archaeological sites in Turkey.
www.turizm.net/turkey/history/neolithic.html
- Origins and Ancient History of Wines - A description of the Neolithic origins of wine.
www.upenn.edu/museum/Wine/wineneolithic.html
- Origins of Agriculture - An article that describes the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in both the New and Old World.
www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs/TMI/HCS210/HortOrigins/NEOrigins.html
- Orkney Archaeology - A photographic library of artifacts from Neolithic sites recovered from a group of over 70 islands located north of Scotland.
www.charles-tait.co.uk/library/archaeology/orkney/brodgar/index.htm
- 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.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/09/020911072622.htm
- The Agricultural Revolution - A tutorial produced by the Learning Commons of Washington State University. The tutorial provides background information on the transition from hunting and gathering to food production.
www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_agrev/agrev-index.html
- The Agricultural Revolution - A brief summary from Idea Works of the factors involved in the spread of agriculture.
www.missouri.edu:80/~socbrent/agrirev.htm
- The Domestication of Plants and Animals - An article describing the implications of the Neolithic Revolution for human societies around the world.
geography.ou.edu/courses/1103bw/domestication.htm
- The Emergence of Civilization in the Ancient Near East - An outline of events and conditions that preceded the Neolithic Revolution in the region.
www.hist.unt.edu/ane-02.htm
- The Neolithic Age - A overview of archaeological sites in Asia Minor.
asiaminor.freeservers.com/neolithic.html
- The Neolithic Age in Sakishima - Site describes aspects of the Neolithic of Japan as seen from prehistoric sites on the islands on the Ryukyu archipelago, (the Sakishima).
museum.mm.pref.okinawa.jp/web_e/history/story/epoch1/sakishima_1.html
- The Neolithic Cultures - An overview of the archaeological sequences of Thessaly, Crete, and the Cyclades.
devlab.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/2.html
- 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.
www.princeton.edu/~bogucki/saa1997.html
- The Neolithic in South American Prehistory - A report describing the spread of food production in South America.
www.csun.edu/~ms44278/neo_sa.htm
- 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.
www.princeton.edu/~bogucki/mosaic.html
- The Origins of Agriculture - An annotated collection of links on the origin of food production.
www.ukans.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.
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.
cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/neolithic_agriculture.htm
- The Whittlesey People - Prehistoric farmers in what is now northeastern Ohio whose culture was the culmination of almost 12,000 years of prehistoric occupation.
www.cmnh.org/collections/archaeo/whittlesey
- Why Only Some Became Farmers - Noel Broadbent, Goran Burenhult, and Moreau Maxwell discuss the sweeping changes associated with adoption of food production and offer an explanation why these events only took place independently in a few locations.
www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/anthropology/learning/lifeways/hg_ag/transition.html
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