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, Jerome Dubouloz, Richard Moussa, Jean-Francois Berger, Anne Tresset, Elena Ortu, Jean-Denis Vigne, Robin Bendrey, Stephanie Brehard, Dominique Schwartz, Aurelie Salavert, Maria Fernanda Sanchez-Goni, Damien Ertlen, Yoan Gauvry, Gourguen Davtian, Marc Vander Linden, Eva Lenneis, Lorette Noiret, Agnes 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 Szecsenyi-Nagy, Victoria Keerl, Janos Jakucs, Guido Brandt, Eszter Banffy 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, Stephanie Brehard, Joel 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 Catalhoyuk, 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 Kurbis, 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 Petrequin
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
