Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated
with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout …

Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before
the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived …

A conspicuous gap in the radiocarbon record of the Iron Gates Mesolithic suggests that
many riverbank sites were abandoned between c 8250 and 7900 cal BP. This period of site …

The spread of early farming across Europe from its origins in Southwest Asia was a culturally
transformative process which took place over millennia. Within regions, the pace of the …

Near Eastern Neolithic farmers introduced several species of domestic plants and animals
as they dispersed into Europe. Dogs were the only domestic species present in both Europe …

The cat has long been important to human societies as a pest-control agent, object of
symbolic value and companion animal, but little is known about its domestication process and …

Current evidence suggests that pigs were first domesticated in Eastern Anatolia during the
ninth millennium cal BC before dispersing into Europe with Early Neolithic farmers from the …

The transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved profound cultural and
technological changes. In Western and Central Europe, these changes occurred rapidly and …

Archaeological investigations in the Iron Gates reach of the Lower Danube Valley between
1964 and 1984 revealed an important concentration of Stone Age sites, which together …

This paper presents for the first time the results of a combination of petrographic, geochemical
and organic residue analyses of early Neolithic ceramics from the Iron Gates region of the …