Preface; Contents; 1. The Study of European Prehistory; 2. Earliest Humans in Europe; 3. Subsistence and Society in Palaeolithic Europe; 4. Post-glacial Developments: Hunters, Gatherers and Beyond; 5. Early Farming Societies: Seventh to Fourth Millennia BC; 6. Settlement, Expansion and Socio-economic Change: 3200-2300 BC; 7. Prestige, Power and Hierarchies: 2300-1400 BC; 8. The Rise of the State in Mediterranean Europe; 9. Competition and Hierarchy in Temperate Europe; 10. Town and the State in Temperate Europe; References; Index.
Summary
This volume provides an elementary and comprehensive synthesis of the new discoveries and the new interpretations of European prehistory.
