Description: This volume presents new archaeological, environmental, and isotopic research on Early Neolithic LBK settlements in south-western Slovakia. Focusing on Vráble and surrounding sites, it explores settlement patterns, land use, chronology, and the relationship between major settlement centres and smaller communities.
Brief description: Ivan Cheben is a Researcher at the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra. His main research interests are material culture studies and settlement patterns of Neolithic and Copper Age periods in Central Europe. He has an extensive experience in archaeological fieldwork in Slovakia, and served as the head of rescue excavations in SW Slovakia for many years. Since 2012 he is head of the Vráble fieldwork project.