What was daily life like in Italy between 6000 and 3500 BC‎?‎ In this book‎,‎ first published in 2007‎,‎ John Robb brings together the archaeological evidence on a wide range of aspects of life in Neolithic Italy and surrounding regions ‎(‎Sicily and Malta‎)‎‎.‎ Exploring how the routines of daily life structured social relations and human experience during this period‎,‎ Robb provides a detailed analysis of how people built houses‎,‎ buried their dead‎,‎ made and shared a distinctive cuisine‎,‎ and made the pots and stone tools that archaeologists find‎.‎ He also addresses questions of regional variation and long‎-term change‎,‎ showing how the sweeping changes at the end of the Neolithic were rooted in and transformed the daily practices of earlier periods‎.‎ Robb links the agency of daily life and the reproduction of social relations with long‎-term patterns in European prehistory‎.‎