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.

An article by Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Robert L. Bettinger that speculates on evolutionary factors driving the Neolithic Revolution.

An annotated collection of links on the origin of food production.

This essay examines the issue of migration among Neolithic peoples and how this shaped cultural developments during this period in Europe.

An article that describes the migration and dispersal of farmers and the adoption of crops and livestock by indigenous foragers.

A brief summary from Idea Works of the factors involved in the spread of agriculture.

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.

An essay describing several prominent archaeological sites in Turkey.

Loose-knit group of archaeologists, mainly from Britain and the Atlantic seaboard countries of the European Union, with an interest in the Neolithic period. Gives details of meetings and publications.

Mary Jackes, David Lubell and Christopher Meiklejohn discuss the effects of the transition to agriculture on human health.

Paper presented by Peter Bogucki at the annual meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, May 1995.

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.

Provides a general overview of global plant domesitication beginning in the Neolithic. Includes archaeological discoveries in both Old and New worlds.

Bone analysis suggests Neolithic people preferred meat to cereals, writes Mike Richards in British Archaeology.

Course materials in on the Neolithic Revolution from the University of California, Davis.

From The Daily Star, a reinterpretation of Neolithic plastered skulls from Jordan, Syria, Israel and Turkey is changing the way scholars think about cult, death and the afterlife in the Neolithic and the ancient Middle East.

Uses satellite images and electronic mapping to interpret the location and spread of early farming and urban communities across the world.

This site documents current research in the Neolithic of the southern levant, with especial regard to ancient pastoral societies.

Great Buildings Online gives images, with commentary and sources, of outstanding monuments built by Neolithic societies: Stonehenge and the Temple at Tarxien, Malta.

Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 1(1). This paper discusses the neolithication of the Aegean as opposed to Cyprus.