New radiocarbon dates for the early neolithic of the western mediterranean

Abstract

Understanding of processes that determined the expansion of farming and animal husbandry in south-western Europe is hampered by poor chronologies of the early Neolithic in this region. This paper presents new radiocarbon dates, which are used to construct such a chronological frame for a regional group of the most important culture of the early Neolithic in the western Mediterranean: the Cardial culture. © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona.