The first Early Neolithic settlements in northwest France

A Manifold Approach for the Investigation of Early and Middle Neolithic Settlements in Thessaly, Greece

The IGEAN (Innovative Geophysical Approaches for the study of Early Agricultural villages of Neolithic) Thessaly project focused on Early and Neolithic settlements in Thessaly, Central Greece. The aim of the project was to highlight in an extensive way differences in settlement layouts while investigating commonalities as a way to understand Neolithic use of space. To accomplish this, a suite o...

Linear Spectral Unmixing for the Detection of Neolithic Settlements in the Thessalian Plain, central Greece

Vegetation crop marks may be formed in areas where vegetation overlays near-surface archaeological remains. These features retain soil moisture with different percentage of moisture compared to the rest of the crops of an area. Depending on the type of feature, crop vigour may be enhanced or reduced by buried archaeological features. Satellite imagery has been already applied successfully in se...

The chronology of the Neolithic ditched settlements of the Tavoliere and the Ofanto valley

The chronology of the southeast Italian Neolithic may appear a rather over-worked subject, since there are several relatively recent treatments of various aspects (Alexander 2005; Skeates 2000; 2003), as well as a range of earlier articles (Pluciennik 1994; 1997; Sargent 1985; Skeates 1994; Whitehouse 1994: 86–90). It therefore may seem not to need additional attention now. Nonetheless, ‘rethin...

Fire frequency and landscape management in the northwestern Pyrenean piedmont, France, since the early Neolithic (8000 cal. BP)

A stochastic model for population migration and the growth of human settlements during the Neolithic

We present a stochastic two-population model that describes the migration and growth of semisedentary foragers and sedentary farmers along a river valley during the Neolithic transition. The main idea of this paper is that random migration and transition from a sedentary to a foraging way of life, and backwards, is strongly coupled with the local crop production and associated degradation of la...