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The ToTL aims at approaching the lives of Neolithic people in Europe as precisely as enable us contemporary methods. It focuses on the European Neolithic, from the 6th to the early 3rd millennia cal B.C.

Through a proven combination of expertise in Neolithic archaeology, radiocarbon dating, and Bayesian statistical analysis, the project hopes to provide more precise timings of key features and trends in the European Neolithic sequence than are currently available. It also aims to construct more precise estimates of the duration of events and phenomena.

The problem-oriented case studies discuss various issues regarding Neolithic people in e.g. France, Scotland, England, Germany, Switzerland, Serbia, among others. One case study concerns also Neolithic settlement development at Racot during the 5th millennium cal B.C. in the Polish lowlands. To obtain a more complex panorama of the times of the Neolithic people lives, different categories of sites are analysed. This includes tells, ‘flat’settlements and cemeteries, wetland settlements, ditched enclosures, megalithic and other monuments.

The project is funded by a five-year (2012-2017) Advanced Investigator Grant, from the European Research Council. One can read more about the ToTL here.