An important contribution to the European Mesolithic and Neolithic literature.

• Focusses on Northern Europe including Novel methods and studies, and very important finds.
• Includes major new developments on Ezero-Kale in Bulgaria (a sequel to Acta Archaeologica Supplementa VI, 2005 on the Lîga Copper Age settlement).
• Provides a superb explanation of the collapse of Balkan Copper Age societies and the long transition to the Bronze Age.
• Includes the re-orientation towards the new centres of the Mediterranean and the Near East: indeed, the dawn of civilization.

Klavs Randsborg is the Editor of Acta Archaeologica. Founded in 1930, the journal is the leading scientific international archaeological periodical in Scandinavia. It publishes full presentations of important new discoveries, archaeological analyses, and general and interdisciplinary studies with an archaeological basis.