Titlebook: European Prehistory; A Survey Sarunas Milisauskas Textbook 2011Latest edition Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Bronze Age research

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The Mesolithic,r, transforming the economies, technology, social arrangements, and ritual life considerably. The Mesolithic continued these processes as the environmental changes progressed, but there is great continuity with the latest Paleolithic, particularly in southern Europe where the postglacial changes began earlier and proceeded more slowly.

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Introduction, been done in Europe in recent years; to integrate this research into an anthropological and historical frame of reference; to address episodes of culture change, such as the transition to farming, the origins of complex societies, and urbanism; to provide an overview of European prehistory from the

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Historical Observations on European Archaeology,ave been conducted, thousands of publications covering various topics have been published, and new theories and methods have been applied to archaeological research. From a small number of pioneering scholars the profession has grown to include the thousands of men and women who are responsible for

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The Present Environment: A Geographic Summary,duces the reader to the geography of the continent, develops the environmental background for the societies of the last 9,000 years, and provides a point of departure against which we can compare the environments of the more distant past.

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The Lower and Middle Paleolithic,pter the continent underwent numerous, dramatic changes in habitat and climate. Studies of these changes have focused on the geological record of river gravels and soil deposition, on the evidence for climatic changes preserved in deep sea cores, on the vegetational record preserved in pollen, and o

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,Middle Neolithic/Early Copper Age, Continuity, Diversity, and Greater Complexity, 5500/5000–3500 BCMiddle Neolithic/Early Copper Age is a period of increasing cultural diversity and complexity. In traditional typology, the Middle Neolithic and Chalcolithic (Copper Age) fall within this period. In Germany, Poland, England, and Scandinavia, copper artifacts, mainly ornaments, are rare at most sites