The early Neolithic in Greece: the first farming communities in Europe

The land and its resources: the geographic context 2. The Mesolithic background 3. The introduction of farming: local processes, diffusion or colonization? 4. Foreign colonists: where from? 5. The earliest Neolithic deposits: 'aceramic', 'pre-pottery' or 'ceramic'? 6. The spread of the Early Neolithic in Greece: chronological and geographical aspects 7. A case study in Early Neolithic settlement patterns: Eastern Thessaly 8. Early Neolithic subsistence economy: the domestic and the wild 9. The Early Neolithic village 10. Craft specialization: the contrasting cases of chipped stone tools, pottery and ornaments 11. A variety of daily crafts 12. Ritual interaction? The miniature world of 'dolls or deities' 13. Interacting with the dead: from the disposal of the body to funerary rituals 14. Interactions among the living.