The meaning of the Swifterbant Culture for the process of neolithisation in the western part of the North European Plain (4900-3400 BC)

An early farming community in Thessaly, Greece.

Investigating domestic crafts and subsistence activities through experiments and material analysis

The times between the Neolithic and Urban revolutions in Mesopotamia have for a long time been interpreted as a period of stagnation. This volume is part of an emerging discourse that challenges such assumptions.

Report on the Excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria.

Tell Sabi Abyad is a major Late Neolithic settlement mound in Northern Syria, belonging to the seventh and early sixth millennium bc. This book presents the results of large-scale fieldwork conducted at the site between 1994 and 1999, under the auspices of the Netherlands National Museum of Antiquities…

Numerous beads and pendants of amber, jet and bone have been found in Dutch Neolithic and Bronze Age context, both in settlements and in graves. Because ornaments are personal items, they are closely linked with people’s identity.

Report on the Excavations of the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden in the Balikh Valley, Syria.

In this book, Peter Akkermans provides a systematic overview of the Halaf culture of the 6 th millennium BC in the Syrian portion of the valley of the Balikh River, a tributary of the Euphrates.

Leiden archaeologists have set fire to a reconstructed Neolithic house in Horsterwold: all in the name of science. Studying the remains will help them understand present and future finds.

Archaeologist Annelou van Gijn received an NWO Archeologie Telt grant to investigate domestic craft and subsistence activities of late Neolithic peoples in the coastal area of the Netherlands

Four studies on its prehistoric occupation and Holocene geology. With a contribution by Agatha S. Knip, Late Neolithic Skeleton Finds from Molenaarsgraaf (Z.H.).

A neolithic settlement on the Dutch North Sea coast c. 3500 CAL BC.

Investigating Neolithic houses in Britain through microwear and residue analysis of stone tools

Also including: Wateringen 4 & Acquiring a taste.

The neolithization of the southern Netherlands in an antropological and geographical perspective

Pottery traditions and social interaction in the earliest Neolithic of the Lower Rhine Area

Tracing the residues of Neolithic activities through the study of stone artefacts

An analysis of pot decoration and hut distributions from the Central European Neolithic communities of Elsloo and Hienheim.

Volume 20 contains eight articles based on research of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Understanding Late Neolithic Ceramic Containers from Upper Mesopotamia

Principles of Functional Analysis applied to Dutch Neolithic Assemblages.

Clustered Neighbourhood Settlements of the Central Anatolian Neolithic ca. 8500-5500 Cal. BC

Analecta Praehistorica Leidensia is the annual journal of the Faculty of Archaeology (formerly the Institute of Prehistory), Leiden University.

Papers presented at a colloquium, held in honour of Professor Dr. P.J.R. Modderman, Leiden, 3-7 May 1982.

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 20, 2004

Leiden Journal of Pottery Studies 21, 2005

Material Culture Studies revolves around the analysis of the cultural biographies of all sorts of material objects from flint axes, to pottery, to houses and monumental structures.

Papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Prehistory, Volume I.

Abrupt Climate Change and Cultural Transformation

New insights into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic.

Eine Archäobotanische untersuchung zu Umwelt und Landwirtschaft der Ältesten Bankkeramik.

This subproject, carried out by post-doctoral researcher Dr. O. Nieuwenhuyse, investigates changes and continuities in the functional, social and symbolic uses of the material culture, c. 6800-5800 BC. A contextually oriented approach is adopted, which pays attention to the local socio-economic and…

Microwear and starch grain analysis on experimental and archaeological grinding tools from Central

Mit Beiträgen von R.R. Newell, E.J. Brinkman und Corrie C. Bakels

Lithic Biographies in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, Prof. Annelou van Gijn (2010)

Commercial enterprises who want to make use of the expertise and facilities are referred to LAB , the commercial unit responsible for specialized laboratory work.

Between foraging and farming: an extended broad spectrum of papers presented to Leendert Louwe Kooijmans.

A Paleoecological Study of Sittard, Stein, Elsloo and Hienheim

This abrupt climate change of 8200 years ago (the so-called 8.2k calBP climate event) has received wide attention among natural scientists, also because of today's rapid climate changes and their impact on our own society. The archaeological implications, however, have not been investigated so far.…

Human impact and plant subsistence in Dutch wetlands during the Late Mesolithic and Early and Middle Neolithic (5500-3400 cal BC)

Digitally Preserving Heritage at Risk