| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: Changing Perspectives on European Prehistory | 1 |
| Sect. I | Cycles of Interpretation | 35 |
| 1 | V. Gordon Childe: Archaeology and Intellectual History (1989) | 38 |
| Sect. II | Ecological Imperatives? | 67 |
| 2 | Socio-economic and Demographic Models for Later Prehistoric Europe (1972) | 70 |
| 3 | Water, Soil and Seasonality in Early Cereal Cultivation (1980) | 85 |
| 4 | Resources, Technology and Trade: An Essay on Early European Metallurgy (1976) | 102 |
| 5 | Social Evolution: Europe in the Later Neolithic and Copper Ages (1984) | 134 |
| Sect. III | Discovering the Secondary Products Complex | 155 |
| 6 | Plough and Pastoralism: Aspects of the Secondary Products Revolution (1981) | 158 |
| 7 | The Secondary Exploitation of Animals in the Old World (1983, revised) | 199 |
| 8 | Wool, Wheels and Ploughmarks: Local Developments or Outside Introductions in Neolithic Europe? (1987) | 229 |
| 9 | Two New Finds of Wooden Wheels from Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Europe (1986) | 242 |
| Sect. IV | Patterns on the Ground | 249 |
| 10 | Mobile Resources: Settlement and Exchange in Early Agricultural Europe (1982) | 252 |
| 11 | The Development of Neolithic and Copper Age Settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain | 270 |
| I | The Regional Setting (1983) | 270 |
| II | Site Survey and Settlement Dynamics (1984) | 293 |
| 12 | Neolithic Exchange Systems in Central Europe, 6000-3500 BC (1987) | 320 |
| 13 | The Genesis of Megaliths Monumentality, Ethnicity and Social Complexity in Neolithic North-West Europe (1990) | 333 |
| 14 | Instruments of Conversion? The Role of Megaliths in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe (1995) | 354 |
| Sect. V | Invisible Flows: Languages, Culture and Drugs | 373 |
| 15 | Cups that Cheered: The Introduction of Alcohol to Prehistoric Europe (1987) | 376 |
| 16 | Sacred and Profane Substances: The Ritual Use of Narcotics in Later Neolithic Europe (1991) | 403 |
| 17 | Metal Vessels in Bronze Age Europe and the Context of Vulchetrun | 431 |
| 18 | Troy, Maikop, Altyn Depe: Early Bronze Age Urbanism and its Periphery (1991) | 457 |
| 19 | The Archaeology of Indo-European: An Alternative View | 471 |
| Sect. VI | A Conversation with Childe | 487 |
| 20 | Gordon Childe: Right or Wrong? (1995) | 490 |
| Bibliography | 506 |
| Index | 552 |
