Best books about the Neolithic period?

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Alkibiades415

I would start with a good generalist overview: Leary and Kador 2016; Bocquet-Appel et al; McCarter 2007; the Kuijt book. Then you can move to regional studies for Europe, the Nile, Greece, the Near East, or China (all included). Not included but possible: India, Britain, Scandinavia, the Americas, etc.

Brami, Maxime Nicolas. 2017. The diffusion of Neolithic practices from Anatolia to Europe: a contextual study of residential construction, 8,500-5,500 BC cal.

Leary, Jim, and Thomas Kador. 2016. Moving on in Neolithic studies: understanding mobile lives.

Sadig, Azhari Mustafa. 2010. The Neolithic of the Middle Nile region: an archeology of Central Sudan and Nubia. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.

Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre, and Ofer Bar-Yosef. 2008. The neolithic demographic transition and its consequences. Dordrecht: Springer.

McCarter, Susan Foster. 2007. Neolithic. New York: Routledge.

Simmons, Alan H. 2007. The neolithic revolution in the Near East: transforming the human landscape. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Kozlowski, S. K., and O. Arenche. 2005. Territories, boundaries and cultures in the Neolithic Near East. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Liu, Li. 2004. The Chinese neolithic: trajectories to early states. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Perlè€s, Catherine. 2001. The early Neolithic in Greece: the first farming communities in Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kuijt, Ian. 2000. Life in Neolithic farming communities: social organization, identity, and differentiation. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Edmonds, M. R. 1999. Ancestral geographies of the Neolithic: landscapes, monuments and memory. London: Routledge.

Thomas, Julian, and Julian Thomas. 1999. Understanding the Neolithic. London [England]: Routledge.

Whittle, A. W. R., and A. W. R. Whittle. 1996. Europe in the Neolithic: the creation of new worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre, and Ofer Bar-Yosef. 2008. The neolithic demographic transition and its consequences. Dordrecht: Springer.