Origins and development of farming societies in Europe: the case of the LBK
Prof Marek Zvelebil and Dr Alena Lukes
The aim of this project is to integrate information from recent excavations with new approaches in the analysis of material culture, enabling a comprehensive study of agricultural origins and the development of farming in Europe during the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. This includes examination of faunal and palaeobotanical evidence in the light of recent taphonomic studies, the modelling of agricultural diffusion and the analysis of human skeletal remains with material culture, implicated in the process of transition.
Recent publications
- 2000 (with M. Lillie) Transition to Agriculture in Eastern Europe. In D. Price (ed), Europe’s First Farmers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 57–92
- 2001 The agricultural transition and the origins of Neolithic society in Europe. In Documenta Praehistorica XXVIII, 1–29
- 2003 Demography and dispersal of Early Farming Populations at the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition: Linguistic and Genetic Implications. In Bellwood, P. and Renfrew, C. (eds) Examining the farming/language dispersal hypothesis McDonald Institute Monographs, Cambridge, 379–394
- 2004 (co-editor with Alena Lukes) LBK Dialogues. Studies in the formation of the Linear Pottery Culture. British Archaeological Reports, International Series. 1304
- 2004 The many origins of the LBK. In Lukes, A. and Zvelebil, M. (eds): LBK Dialogues. Studies in the formation of the Linear Pottery Culture, 183–205. BAR International Series, 1304.
- 2004 (with Alena Lukes) Change and Continuity: Intergenerational Transmission of culture as an approach to understanding the origins of the LBK culture. In Whittle, A. et al (eds) Unsettling the Neolithic. Oxford, Oxbow Books
- In press Homo habitus: agency, structure and the transformation of tradition in the constitution of TRB foraging-farming communities in the North European plain (ca 4500–2000 BC). In Documenta Preahistorica XXX11