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The ‘Mesolithic-Neolithic transition’ in Portugal: a view from Vidigal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lawrence Guy Straus
Lawrence Guy Straus*
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Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131, USA
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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 249 , December 1991 , pp. 899 - 903
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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The Atlantic coast of Portugal is as far west as the Near Eastern domesticates could reach in the wave of Neolithic transformations that swept through the Mediterranean and across continental Europe. With rich food resources and a dense Mesolithic settlement, it is also a region where the process of the great transformation was particularly complex.

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