1:Introduction: integrated and multi-scalar approaches to early farmers in Europe, Penny Bickle and Alasdair Whittle
2:The future Neolithic: a new research agenda, John Robb
3:Some possible conditions necessary for the colonisation of Europe by domesticates, John C. Barrett
4:Multi-agent modeling of the trajectory of the LBK Neolithic: a study in progress, Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, Jérôme Dubouloz, Richard Moussa, Jean-François Berger, Anne Tresset, Elena Ortu, Jean-Denis Vigne, Robin Bendrey, Stéphanie Bréhard, Dominique Schwartz, Aurélie Salavert, Maria Fernanda Sanchez-Goñi, Damien Ertlen, Yoan Gauvry, Gourguen Davtian, Marc Vander Linden, Eva Lenneis, Lorette Noiret, Agnès Guillaumont and Martin O'Connor
5:Ancient DNA evidence for a homogeneous maternal gene pool in sixth millennium cal BC Hungary and the central European LBK, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, Victoria Keerl, János Jakucs, Guido Brandt, Eszter Bánffy and Kurt W. Alt
6:Settlement burials at the Karsdorf LBK site, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: biological ties and residential mobility, Guido Brandt, Corina Knipper, Nicole Nicklisch, Robert Ganslmeier, Mechthild Klamm, Kurt W. Alt
7:Cattle and sheep herding at Cheia, Romania, at the turn of the fifth millennium cal BC: a view from stable isotope analysis, Marie Balasse, Carlos Tornero, Stéphanie Brehard, Joël Ughetto-Monfrin, Valentina Voinea and Adrian Balasescu
8:Herding practices in the ditched villages of the Neolithic Tavoliere (Apulia, SE Italy): a vicious circle? The isotopic evidence., Mary Anne Tafuri, John Robb, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Valentina Mariotti, Paola Iacumin, Antonietta Di Matteo and Tamsin O'Connell
9:Linear Pottery culture household organisation: an economic model, Lamys Hachem and Caroline Hamon
10:Framing farming: a multi-stranded approach to early agricultural practice in Europe, Amy Boggard
11:Stewing on a theme of cuisine: biomolecular and interpretative approaches to culinary changes at the transition to agriculture, Hayley Saul, Aikaterini Glykou and Oliver E. Craig
12:Life conditions and health in early farmers: a global perspective on costs and consequences of a fundamental transition, Clark Spencer Larsen
13:Biographical bodies: flesh and food at Çatalhöyük, Jessica Pearson and Lynn Meskell
14:Neolithic lifeways: microstratigraphic traces within houses, animal pens and settlements, Wendy Matthews, Lisa-Marie Shillito and Sarah Elliott
15:Violence in the Neolithic: a population perspective, Rick Schulting and Linda Fibiger
16:Mass graves of the LBK: patterns and peculiarities, Christian Meyer, Christian Lohr, Olaf Kürbis, Veit Dresely, Wolfgang Haak, Christina J. Adler, Detlef Gronenborn and Kurt W. Alt
17:Revealing our vibrant past: science, materiality and the Neolithic, Oliver J.T. Harris
18:Pottery, Archaeology and Chemistry: contents and context, Jessica Smyth and Richard Evershed
19:Constructing a narrative for the Neolithisation of Britain and Ireland: the use of 'hard science' and archaeological reasoning, Alison Sheridan and Pierre Pétrequin
20:Doing science in the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age: an insider's perspective, John Chapman
21:Archaeological science and the Neolithic: the power and perils of proxy measures, Paul Halstead