6000 BC

Peter F. Biehl is Professor of Anthropology and Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. Eva Rosenstock is Scientific Coordinator and Lecturer at the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences, University of Bonn.

• Introduction: 1. Transforming and changing the Neolithic World in the near East and Europe Peter F. Biehl and Eva Rosenstock; Upper Mesopotamia and Eastern Mediterranean: 2. The late Neolithic Site of Shir in Western Syria: The final phase of occupation circa 6000 BC Karin Bartl; 3. Containers of change: Social and material innovation in Late Neolithic upper mesopotamia Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse; 4. Mersin-Yumuktepe in the seventh millennium BC: The social dimension of technological changes Isabella Caneva; 5. Changing with the years: Khirokitia (Cyprus) at the turn of the seventh to the sixth millennium B.C. Odile Daune-Le Brun, Fouad Hourani and Alain Le Brun; Anatolia: 6. A conspectus on the status of Tepecik-Çiftlik Excavation (Cappadocia) – intersite and regional outcomes and prospects Erhan Bıcakcı; 7. The downturn in Tepecik-Çiftlik's ceramic production continuity: An insight towards the rapid emergence of supra-regional homogeneity in ceramic style Martin Godon and Ozan Özbudak; 8. Çatalhöyük East and Köşk Höyük: a grand connection? Bleda S. Düring; 9. Abandoning Çatalhöyük. Re-shuffling, re-location and migration as the means of mitigating social unease in the late Neolithic Lech Czerniak, Arkadiusz Marciniak; 10. Çatalhöyük West and the late Neolithic to early chalcolithic transition in Central Anatolia Jacob Brady, Jana Anvari, Ingmar Franz, Goce Naumov, David Orton, Sonia Ostaptchouk, Elizabeth Stroud, Patrick T. Willett, Eva Rosenstock, and Peter F. Biehl; 11. The potter's riddle at Çatalhöyük – An attempt to connect the late Neolithic and the early chalcolithic pottery assemblages from Çatalhöyük/Turkey Ingmar Franz and Joanna Pyzel; 12. Pots for a New Millennium: Ceramics and Culture Change in Anatolia around 6000 cal, B.C. Jonathan Last; Aegean and Marmara: 13. Aegean Turkey from the mid seventh to early sixth millennium cal B.C.: A tale of change within continuity Çiler Çilingiroğlu; 14. The beginning and the development of farming-based village life in Northwestern Anatolia Necmi Karul; 15. Regional provinces and supra-regional networks in the Aegean before and around 6000 cal B.C. Agathe Reingruber; 16. The turn of the 7th to 6th millennium in Greece: A quiet transition Catherine Perlès; Southeast Europe: 17. Continuity and discontinuity in Eastern thrace during the Neolithic period Eylem Özdoğan; 18. Changes through time in the early Neolithic settlement of Kovačevo, Southwest Bulgaria Marion Lichardus-Itten; 19. A hybrid cultural World: The turn of the 7th to the 6th millennium BC in the central Balkans Dušan Borić and Emanuela Cristiani; Modelling the Change: 20. The Neolithisation of Europe from Anatolia: Why did they leave? Jean-Paul Demoule; 21. Modes and models of Neolithisation in Europe: Comments to an ongoing debate Wolfram Schier; Commentaries: 22. Ian Hodder; 23. Mehmet Özdoğan.