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On the transition to farming in Europe, or what was spreading with the Neolithic: a reply to Ammerman (1989)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marek Zvelebil
Marek Zvelebil*
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Department of Prehistory & Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN
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Zvelebil here rejoins to Ammerman's criticisms, published in the March issue, of his earlier paper on Indo-European languages and the dispersal of agriculture into Europe, and takes the opportunity to make a broader statement about the character of Neolithic settlement on the full continental scale.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 239 , June 1989 , pp. 379 - 383
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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