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.