Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Chalcolithic
Also known as Copper Age, European Chalcolithic is a time of changes and confusion. The most relevant fact is the infiltration and invasi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neolithic Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Neolithic Europe - Pre-indo-european Peoples
The earliest modern humans, or Homo sapiens sapiens - as opposed to Neanderthals - to enter Europe did so perhaps around 50,000 years ago...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Bronze Age
Though the use of bronze started much earlier in the Aegean area, it is not before 1800 BCE that it reaches southern Spain, while Central...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Iron Age
Though the use of iron was known to the Aegean peoples about 1100 BCE, it didn't reach Central Europe before 800 BCE, giving way to the H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Neolithic
Main article:Neolithic Europe. European Neolithic comes from the Near East, via Asia Minor, the Mediterranean waterway and also through t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Prehistoric Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Prehistoric Europe - Paleolithic
Lower Paleolithic: Europe was populated by species of Homo since c. 900,000 years ago (Homo erectus), associated with the pebble-tools te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neolithic Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Neolithic Europe - Neolithic Languages
How many Neolithic languages existed is not known, nor whether the ancient names of peoples believed, in ancient times or now, to have de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neolithic Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Neolithic Europe - Competing Theories
Few details of these cultures are widely agreed upon, and even the date of the Indo-European arrival in Old Europe is questioned, whether...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neolithic Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Neolithic Europe - Origins
Archeologists believe that food-producing societies first emerged in the Levantine region of southwest Asia in the early Holocene, and de...   » Read the article