This course is an introduction to the Neolithic in the form of a semester of lectures. The course provides a broad overview and general explanatory framework for the sequence and processes Neolithization that led from the development of farming and its initial spread into Europe to the earliest metal producing societies of the Copper Age in Europe. On successful completion of this course, a student should have an overview of the Neolithic from SW Asia to Western and Northern Europe. The course focuses on the Neolithic in Central Europe during the 6th and 5th
millennia BC. Students will have an overview about relative and absolute chronology, plant and animal domestication, key traits of material culture (artifacts), settlement patterns, economic strategies, and funerary rites.
- Lecturer: Roderick Byron Salisbury
- Enrolled students: 13