Kurt Gron is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Archaeology, Durham University. He specialises in wild and domestic fauna from the Stone Age in northern Europe stable isotope geochemistry; shell middens and shell midden taphonomy. Lasse Sorensen is Associated Professor in Archaeology at Århus University specialising in Mesolithic and Neolithic economic developments and zooarchaeology. Peter Rowley-Conwy is professor of environmental archaeology at Durham University. He specialises in hunter-gatherers, early farmers, and the transition to agriculture. He has worked on Mesolithic and Neolithic animal bones in various parts of Europe including Denmark, Italy and Portugal, and the Middle East.

• Integrating domesticates: earliest farming experiences in the Iberian Peninsula, Roger Alcantara The earliest agriculture in Hungary, Eszter Bánffy  Who were the earliest farmers? Interactions – innovations – adaptations in the earliest Neolithic of the Central Balkans, human bioarchaeological perspectives, Camille de Becdelievre The slow Neolithisation: a case study from western Norway, Knut Andreas Bergsvik Earliest farming in North-Western Mediterranean: Evidences from Castellar-Pendimoun during the 6th Millennium BCE, Didier Binder The Discontinuous Establishment of Farming Communities on the North European Plain, 5300-4000 B.C., Peter Bogucki The role and nature of early animal husbandry in secondary Neolithisation: The Dutch and eastern Aegean cases in comparative perspective, Canan Cakirlar Can spatio-temporal kernels provide a better understanding of the earliest farming expansion through the mediterranean?, Agustín Diez Castillo  The earliest agriculture in Portugal, Simon Davis Culture and context of the Scandinavian Neolithic, Håkon Glørstad Early Neolithic farming in southern Scandinavia, Kurt Gron The earliest farming package in Greece: questions of scale, intensity and agro-pastoral integration, Paul Halstead Pioneer farming in the Balkans during the early sixth millennium BC: integrating quantitative bioarchaeological datasets with bioclimatic parameters, Maria Ivanova The character of the early Neolithic farming. A view from the Polish lowlands, Arkadiusz Marciniak The northern fringe of early farming in Europe-insights from ancient genomes, Alissa Mittnik Simple life of LBK settlers in Kuyavia? Example from site 10 in Kruszyn, Włocławek province, Dominik Płaza One size does not fit all? Interpreting complex diachronic Neolithic-period data in Norway, Christopher Prescott The first farmers on the Vistula River in the Polish Lowlands, Joanna Pyzel The first Italian farmers and their vegetable food: choices, productions, environmental aspects,Mauro Rottoli First farmers in Liguria, northwestern Italy: new evidence from Arene Candide, Peter Rowley-Conwy The earliest farming in Britain, Peter Rowley-Conwy Biased data or hard facts? How to interpret the earliest agrarian evidences in south Scandinavia, Lasse Sørensen Origins and evolution of pig domestication in Italy: A biometrical study, Sofia Tecce