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Adriatic Explorations

Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Neolithization is one of a handful of major social and economic processes that affected the entire Mediterranean, even if in quite different ways across different periods and regions. Everywhere, however, its impact was substantial, affecting also other parts of Europe and West Asia. It is therefore with good reason that the study of Neolithization has a long and distinguished track-record going back, at least, to the work of Childe, who first characterized Neolithization as a revolution (Childe 1925: 15). He would eventually go on to describe it more fully (Childe 1942: 48) as an ‘economic and scientific revolution’, even using the term ‘revolutionaries’ to refer to the people involved—whom we would now call ‘social actors’ (Gamble 2007: 10-26). In Childe’s understanding, migration and agriculture were the cornerstones of the Neolithic revolution, and these two phenomena have remained central to academic debates about Neolithization to this day.
DOI: 10.1558/jma.35011
Authors: Claire Manen, Thomas P. Leppard, Samuele Ongaro, Fraser Sturt, Rachel Bynoe, Stašo Forenbaher, Giovanni Boschian, Nikola Vukosavljević, Dinko Radić, Siniša Radović, Preston T. Miracle
Institutions: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, International Archaeological Research Institute, University of Southampton, University of Pisa, University of Johannesburg, University of Zagreb, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, University of Cambridge
Language: English
Subfield: Paleontology
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7155555944
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