Ebook: Climate fluctuations and trajectories to complexity in the Neolithic: towards a theory

Article // Documenta Praehistorica. — 2009. — XXXVI. — Pp. 97-110.Theories about the emergence and spread of farming in western Eurasia have a long research history. Occasionally, climate fluctuations have served as explanations for short-term culture change. However, the entire Holocene climate fluctuation sequence has so far not been regarded. First steps towards a theory which combines the successive stages in Neolithization and early to Mid-Holocene climate fluctuations are described.