The Domestication of Europe: structure and contingency in Neolithic societies (1990)

Set largely in Denmark, it treats the Neolithic society with knowledge and respect while not hiding its own faults.

Is an alternative model of Neolithic society feasible which is equally well grounded in the archaeological evidence but which can accommodate these new ideas?

Perhaps some, or even many, Neolithic societies perished because of this.

Members of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture shared common features with other Neolithic societies, including:

The Neolithic society is characterized by a predominantly agrarian economy with stable settlements and funerary practices specific to a religion based on a fertility cult.

Such portal tombs were funerary sites for the disposal of the dead in Neolithic society.

In this Neolithic society where life was so short, teen-agers became adults as soon as they reached sexual maturity.

Neolithic societies in the area lived by fishing and hunting.

Like other Neolithic societies, the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture had almost no division of labor.