The first true farming communities in Europe are called the Linearbandkeramik, or LBK for short. This bibliography was built to go along with the About.com Guide to the Linearbandkeramik.
Allard, Pierre 2005 Surplus Production of Flint Blades in the Early Neolithic of Western Europe. European Journal of Archaeology 8(3):205-223.
Behre, Karl-Ernst 2007 Evidence for Mesolithic agriculture in and around central Europe? Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 16203-219.
Bentley, R. A. and Stephen J. Shennan 2003 Cultural Transmission and Stochastic Network Growth. American Antiquity 68(3)
Bickle, Penny and Hofmann Daniela 2007 Moving on: the contribution of isotope studies to the early Neolithic of Central Europe. Antiquity 81(314):1029-1041.
Bogucki, Peter. 2001 Recent research on early farming in Central Europe. pp. 85-97 in Documenta Praehistorica XXVIII. 8th Neolithic Studies, edited by Mihael Budja Llubljana: Filozovska Fakulteta, Oddelek za Arheologijo.
Bogucki, Peter 1996. The spread of early farming in Europe. American Scientist 84:242-253
College, Sue C. and James Conolly, eds. 2007. The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe. Left Coast Press: Walnut Creek, California.
Colledge, Sue, James Conolly, and Stephen Shennan 2005 The Evolution of Neolithic Farming from SW Asian Origins to NW European Limits. European Journal of Archaeology 8(2):137-156.
Conolly, James, Sue C. College, and Stephen Shennan 2008 Founder effect, drift, and adaptive change in domestic crop use in early Neolithic Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(10):2797-2804.
Deguilloux M-F, Leahy R, Pemonge M-H, and Rottier S. 2012. European Neolithization and Ancient DNA: An Assessment. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 21(1):24-37.
Dolukhanov, Pavel, et al. 2005 The chronology of Neolithic dispersal in Central and Eastern Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science 32(10):1441-1458.
Golitko, Mark and Lawrence H. Keeley 2007 Beating ploughshares back into swords: warfare in the Linearbandkeramik. Antiquity 81(312):332-342.
Gronenborn, Detlef 2006 Climate Change and Socio-Political Crises: Some Cases from Neolithic Central Europe. Journal of Conflict Archaeology 2(1):13-32.
Haak, Wolfgang, et al. 2005 Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites. Science 310:1016-1018. See the article Origins of Agriculure in Central Europe for more information on this interesting paper.
Hamon, Caroline 2008 Functional analysis of stone grinding and polishing tools from the earliest Neolithic of north-western Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(6):1502-1520.
Kreuz, Angela 2008 Closed forest or open woodland as natural vegetation in the surroundings of Linearbandkeramik settlements? Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17(1):51-64.
Kreuz, Angela, Elena Marinova, Eva Schäfer, and Julian Wiethold 2005 A comparison of early Neolithic crop and weed assemblages from the Linearbandkeramik and the Bulgarian Neolithic cultures: differences and similarities. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 14(4):237-258.
Larson, Greger, et al. 2007 Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(39)15276-15281).
Nehlich, Olaf, et al. 2009 Mobility or migration: a case study from the Neolithic settlement of Nieder-Mörlen (Hessen, Germany). Journal of Archaeological Science 36(8):1791-1799.
Orschiedt, Joerg and Miriam N. Haidle 2006 The LBK Enclosure at Herxheim: Theatre of War or Ritual Centre? References from Osteoarchaeological Investigations. Journal of Conflict Archaeology 2(1):153-167.
Price, T. D., et al. 2001 Prehistoric human migration in the Linearbandkeramik of central Europe. Antiquity 75(289):593-603.
Salavert A. 2011. Plant economy of the first farmers of central Belgium (Linearbandkeramik, 5200-5000 b.c. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20(5):321-332.
Shennan, S. J. and J. R. Wilkinson 2001 Ceramic Style Change and Neutral Evolution: A Case Study from Neolithic Europe. American Antiquity 66(4):5477-594.
Vanmontfort, Bart 2008 Forager-farmer connections in an 'unoccupied' land: First contact on the western edge of LBK territory. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27(2):149-160.
