Europe in the Neolithic: The Creation of New Worlds
- A. Whittle
- History, Environmental Science
- 1 June 1998
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,…
Gathering Time: Dating the Early Neolithic Enclosures of Southern Britain and Ireland
- A. Whittle, F. Healy, A. Bayliss
- History
- 15 June 2011
Gathering Time presents the results of a major dating programme that re-writes the early Neolithic of Britain by more accurately dating enclosures, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early…
Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory
- C. Gamba, E. Jones, R. Pinhasi
- BiologyNature Communications
- 21 October 2014
A 5,000-year transect of human genomes, sampled from petrous bones giving consistently excellent endogenous DNA yields, are analysed to investigate the impact of these on Europe’s genetic landscape and suggest genomic shifts with the advent of the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, with interleaved periods of genome stability.
Bradshaw and Bayes: Towards a Timetable for the Neolithic
- A. Bayliss, C. Ramsey, J. Plicht, A. Whittle
- Environmental ScienceCambridge Archaeological Journal
- 30 January 2007
The importance of chronology is reasserted as a means to achieving history and a sense of temporality, and a worked example presents simulated radiocarbon dates as a demonstration of the explicit, quantified, probabilistic estimates now possible on a routine basis.
The Archaeology of People: Dimensions of Neolithic Life
- A. Whittle
- Sociology
- 2003
Alasdair Whittle's new work argues powerfully for the complexity and fluidity of life in the Neolithic, through a combination of archaeological and anthropological case studies and current…
In the beginning : new radiocarbon dates for the Early Neolithic in northern Serbia and south-east Hungary.
- A. Whittle, L. Bartosiewicz, D. Borić, P. Pettitt, M. Richards
- Environmental Science
- 2002
The Early Neolithic on the Great Hungarian Plain : investigations of the Körös culture site of Ecsegfalva 23, County Békés
- A. Whittle
- History
- 2007
THE EARLY NEOLITHIC ON THE GREAT HUNGARIAN PLAIN. INVESTIGATIONS OF THE KÖRÖS CULTURE SITE OF ECSEGFALVA 23, COUNTY BÉKÉS EDITED BY ALASDAIR WHITTLE Varia Archaeologica XXI, Budapest: Institute of…
The harmony of symbols : the Windmill Hill causewayed enclosure, Wiltshire
- A. Whittle, J. Pollard, C. Grigson
- History
- 1999
Community differentiation and kinship among Europe’s first farmers
- R. Bentley, P. Bickle, A. Whittle
- EconomicsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 29 May 2012
Using strontium isotopic data from more than 300 early Neolithic human skeletons, it is found significantly less variance in geographic signatures among males than it is among females, and less variance among burials with ground stone adzes than burials without such adzes.
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