It can be argued that elements of European heritage can be identified not only as a national strategy of the present but also as a process in prehistory - the cultural and political transformations of the third millennium BC in European prehistory sparking off this process.

Preface (Christopher Prescott and Håkon Glørstad) 1. Introduction: becoming European (Christopher Prescott and Håkon Glørstad) 2. Personhoods for Europe: the archaeological construction and deconstruction of European-ness (Herdis Hølleland) 3. Demography and mobility in North-Western Europe during the third millennium cal. BC (Marc Vander Linden) 4. Perceiving changes in the third millennium BC in Europe through pottery: Galicia, Brittany and Denmark as examples (M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez) 5. Body use transformations: socio-political changes in the Bell Beaker context (Lucía Moragón) 6. Late Neolithic Expansion to Norway. The beginning of a 4000 year-old shipbuilding tradition (Einar Østmo) 7. Towards a new understanding of Late Neolithic Norway – the role of metal and metal working (Lene Melheim) 8. Historical ideal types and the transition to the Late Neolithic in South Norway (Håkon Glørstad) 9. The last hunter-fishers of western Norway (Knut Andreas Bergsvik) 10. Third millennium transformations in Norway: modeling an interpretative platform (Christopher Prescott) 11. Technology Talks: Material Diversity and Change in Northern Norway 3000–1000 BC (Marianne Skandfer) 12. Cultural Reproduction from Late Stone Age to Early Metal Age – a short discussion of the cultures in Finland, the northern part of Fennoscandia and Karelia, 3200 cal BC to 1500 cal BC (Mika Lavento) 13. Tracing Pressure-Flaked Arrowheads in Europe (Jan Apel) 14. The Bronze Age expansion of Indo-European languages: an archaeological model (Kristian Kristiansen)