Byzas 2. How did farming reach Europe? Anatolian - European relations from the second half of the 7th through the first half of the 6th millennium cal BC. Proceedings of the International Workshop. Istanbul, 20 - 22 May 2004.

Paperback. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In English. [viii], 327, [3] p. Contents: Framework and Anatolian Roots: Westward expansion of the Neolithic way of life: what we know and what we do not know. Mehmet Özdogan. Coming to grips with the Aegean in Prehistory: an outline of the temporal framework, 100-5500 cal BC. Laurens Thissen; The late escape of the Neolithic from the Central Anatolian Plain. Ulf-Dietrich Schoop; Neolithisation of Western Anatolia: Western Anatolia in the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic: the actual state of research. Clemens Lichter; Neolithic settlement at Ulucak Hoyuk and its cultural relations with neighbour regions in Western Anatolia. Esref Abay; The neolithic architecture of Ulucak Hoyuk. Zafer Derin; Visualizing neolithic landscape: archaeological theory in the Aegean Islands. Burçin Erdogdu; The neolithisation in Inland Northwestern Anatolia. Turan Efe; From Anatolia to Europe: The ceramic sequence of Hoca Cesme in Turkish Thrace. Necmi Karul, Jan-K Bertram; Neolithisation of the Balkans and Greece: New evidence from the early productive stages in the Aegean Basin from the 9th to the 7th millennia cal BC. Adamantios Sampson; Tracing the story of the first farmers in Greece - a long and winding road. Nikos Efstratiou; The Argissa Magoula and the beginning of the Neolithic in Thessaly. Agathe Reingruber; Worlds in transition: Mesolithic/Neolithic lifestyles at the cave of Theopetra, Thessaly/Greece. Nina Kyparissi Apostolika, Georgia Kotzamani; The Early Neolithic settlement in Central and Southern Greece. The actual state of research "Border crossing" cultural elements: Eva Alram-Stern; Neolithic Figurines - East-West. Svene Hansen; Some observations about bullet core technique during 7th and 6th millennium BC. Ivan Gatsov; Hoyuk, Toumba and Mogila: a settlement form in Anatolia and the Balkans and its ecological determination 6500-5500 cal BC. Eva Rosenstock; Everyone's black box - Where does the European ornamentation come from? Holger Schubert; Prismatic polypod vessels and their way to Europe. Heiner Schwarzberg; From the Near East to Greece: let's reverse the focus - Cultural elements that didn't transfer. Catherina Perles; Concluding remarks: Clemesn Lichter; Appendix / 14C database for the Aegean catchment (Eastern Greece, Southern Balkans and Western Turkey) 100-5500 cal BC. Agathe Reingruber, Laurens Thissen.