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Dear colleagues, A Priority Program about "Early Monumentality and Social Differentiation" in the 4^th and at the beginning of the 3^rd mill. BC initiated by the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology at the University of Kiel (Prof. Dr. Johannes Müller) and the German-Romanic Commission (Prof. Dr. Friedrich Lüth), financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has started most recently. Central part of this program is our project on the shaping of landscape by the first farmers in northern Europe as basis of early monumentality. We focus on the Funnel-Beaker-Culture (TRB), but we will investigate also younger Neolithic material to detect potential changes. So far our knowledge about early farming in northern Europe is scarce. Within the priority program we have the great chance to accompany a multitude of excavations and to establish a consistent sampling strategy. We want to study on-site and off-site macro-remains like seeds and fruits, charred and non-charred, and charcoal as well as pollen profiles and single pollen samples. For the macro-remain-study we mainly examine soil samples taken at recent excavations of megalithic tombs, ring ditches and settlements. Furthermore, we want to revisit material that is stored (or hidden?) in the archives of museums, add new AMS-datings of the archived material and re-investigate it if necessary. It is our intention to bring up a data base that collates available published and so far unpublished data with that of new archaeobotanical investigations to gain a solid background for comprehensive interpretation. We would be interested to get in contact and bring up cooperation with colleagues especially in Denmark, Sweden, Poland and the Netherlands. We need your help to get in contact with the right stakeholders being interested in collaboration and knowing, where soil samples or botanical macro-remains of the Neolithic are saved which is not examined yet or might be worth to be re-investigated. We would be very much pleased if you could inform us. Looking forward to get your advice! Kind regards, Wiebke Kirleis Stefanie Klooß Further information so far available in German only at: http://www.monument.ufg.uni-kiel.de/ *contact:* Prof. Dr. Wiebke Kirleis Juniorprofessor for Environmental Archaeology Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes/ Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology Phone: 0049 (0)431/880-3173 Fax: 0049 (0)431/880-7300 Email: [log in to unmask] Stefanie Klooß project scientist Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology Phone: 0049 (0)431/880-3374 Email: [log in to unmask] letters: Olshausenstrasse 40 | D-24098 Kiel | Germany parcels: Olshausenstrasse 40 | D-24118 Kiel | Germany office: Johanna-Mestorf-Strasse 2-6 | D-24118 Kiel | Germany