Times of Neolithic Transition along the Western Mediterranean

Introduction: Current thoughts on the Neolithisation process of the Western Mediterranean (Domingo C. Salazar-García, Oreto García Puchol).- Chapter 1: The Neolithic transition: from the Eastern to the Western Mediterranean (Jean Guilaine).- Chapter 2: New approaches to the Neolithic Transition: the last hunters and first farmers of the western Mediterranean (Joaquim Juan-Cabanilles, Bernat Martí Oliver).- Chapter 3: Timing the Western Mediterranean last hunter-gatherers and first farmers (Oreto García-Puchol, Agustín Diez-Castillo, Salvador Pardo-Gordó).- Chapter 4:Alternative stories of agricultural origins: The Neolithic spread in the Iberian Peninsula (Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Sean M. Bergin, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, C. Michael Barton).- Chapter 5: Neolithic Human Societies and woodlands in the north-western Mediterranean region. Wood and charcoal analysis (Ernestina Badal, Yolanda Carrión, Lucie Chabal, Isabel Figueiral, Stéphanie Thiébault).- Chapter 6: Evidence for early crop management practices in the Western Mediterranean: latest data, new developments and future perspectives (Guillem Pérez Jordà, Leonor Peña-Chocarro, Jacob Morales Mateo, Lydia Zapata).- Chapter 7: Farming practices in the Early Neolithic according to agricultural tools: Evidence from La Draga site (North-eastern Iberia) (Xavier Terradas, Raquel Piqué, Antoni Palomo, Ferran Antolín, Oriol López, Jordi Revelles, Ramon Buxó).- Chapter 8: Farming with Animals: Domesticated animals and taxonomic diversity in the Cardial Neolithic of the Western Mediterranean (Sarah B. McClure, Martin Welker).- Chapter 9: Dietary practices at the onset of the Neolithic in the Western Mediterranean revealed using a combined biomarker and isotopic approach (Cynthianne Debono Spiteri, Italo M. Muntoni, Oliver E. Craig).- Chapter 10: A terrestrial diet close to the coast: A case study from the Neolithic levels of Nerja Cave (Málaga, Spain) (Domingo C. Salazar-García, Manuel Pérez Ripoll, Pablo García-Borja, Jesús F. Jordá Pardo, J. Emili Aura Tortosa).- Chapter 11:The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe: a perspective from ancient human DNA (Eva Fernández-Domínguez, Lucke Reynolds).- Chapter 12: Paths and Rhythms in the spread of agriculture in the Western Mediterranean: the contribution of the analysis of harvesting technology (Juan José Ibáñez-Estévez, Juan Francisco Gibaja Bao, Bernard Gassin, Niccolo Mazzucco).- Chapter 13: Spatial and temporal diversity during the Neolithic spread in the Western Mediterranean. The first pottery productions (Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Claire Manen, Salvador Pardo-Gordó).- Conclusion: The Revolution in Studies of the Neolithic Transition in the West Mediterranean (Stephen Shennan).