Introduction remarks
The XXVI"' volume of journal Documenta Praehistorica, which is at the same tirne also the 6"' Neolithic Studies anthology, com-prises papers originally presented at the sixth international Neolithic Seminar, which took plače at the Department of Archaeology in the week of 18-22 May 1999- Papers were given by ten invited speakers and, almost ali of which are included in revised form in this anthology.
At the 6"' Neolithic Seminar in Ljubljana, the speakers shared expertise and contemplated on the mesolithic and neolithic in China; on the transition to farming in China; on the neolithic fu-neral rites at Zagheh in Iran; on the cognitive significance of neolithic tokens; on the places that created tirne in mesolithic and neolithic in Danube Gorges and beyond; on the transition to farming in the East Baltic; on the built environment in the neolithic in southeastern Europe; on an indigenous respond to transition to farming in Mediterranean Europe; on the landscape dynamics on the Ljubljansko barje and, on the stable isotope evidence of the neolithic diet.
There are some more papers presenting current approaches and perspectives relating to the transitions from foraging to farming in western Anatolia, and western Mediterranean; the prehistoric mobility in eastern Thrace; the dog burials and human burials associated with dog remains in the Iron Gates Mesolithic; on the ecology of neolithic environmental impacts on the Ljubljansko barje and on the fringe of the Matra hills.
Radiocarbon dates are given in this volume using the convention bp and bc for uncalibrated radiocarbon years. BP and BC are used to indicate calibrated radiocarbon dates unless othenvise noted by the authors.
Ljubljana, december 1999