Europe in the Neolithic: The Creation of New Worlds. Alasdair Whittle 1996. Cambridge University Press, England, xvi + 443 pp., 126 illustrations, bibliography, index. $80.00 (cloth), $34.95 (paper).

Abstract

1. The time of ancestors 2. Keeping the land: indigenous foragers, c.9000-after 7000 BC 3. The first generations: south-east Europe, c.7000/6500-5500 BC 4. Old and new histories: south-east Europe, c. 5500-4000 BC 5. Accents of change: south-east Europe, c.4000-3000 BC 6. Longhouse lives: central and western Europe, c.5500-before 4000 BC 7. Unfair settlements and abstract funerals: central and western Europe, c.4000-2500 BC 8. One foot in sea: the central and west Mediterranean, c.7000-5000 BC 9. The heart of the country: the central and west Mediterranean, c.5000-2500 BC 10. The creation of new worlds.