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* First received August 2009, revised December 2011
CHAPTER 10
EARLY NEOLITHIC MANIFESTATIONS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE*
DETLEF GRONENBORN AND PAVEL DOLUKHANOV†
INTRODUCTION
AFTER Childe (1936), the concept of the ‘Neolithic revolution’ was focused on the introduction of agriculture. Neolithization was viewed as the spread of colonists bearing ceramic containers, domesticated plants and animals, new architecture, long-distance trade, burial rituals, and eventually forcing indigenous hunter-gatherers into adopting the cultivation of domesticated cereals and the rearing of animal stock. Additional criteria included increased sedentism, social hierarchy, and symbolic expressions. To this day the shift to agro-pastoral farming is deemed the most important single signature of the Neolithic (Zvelebil 2000).