ABSTRACT
In recent years, the evidence for culture contact between agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers along the frontier zone of the classic Neolithic of the Danubian Tradition has increased and the scenarios have become much more complex. African Saharan populations as contributors to the neolithization process of the western Mediterranean have recently been re-discussed by Winiger who sees population dispersals towards the north in the course of the early to mid-Holocene desiccation as the triggering force. Apart from the classic Danubian passageway, people are starting to acknowledge that material and economic aspects of what later constitutes Neolithic societies entered Central Europe from two other regions: one arrived through western France and has its origins somewhere in the western Mediterranean andnot entirely impossiblesomewhere on the northern or north-western African continent. The other direction from where Western Temperate Eurasia had been influenced lies far in the southeast of the European continent, in the Russian steppe zones, on the fringes of Central Asia.
