The formation of early farming communities on the central Balkans is widely associated with migrations from Anatolia and the Aegean, for which reason this particular region represents a key area for understanding the timing, nature, dispersal and direction of societal change. Although the connectivity between the central Balkans and the Aegean-Anatolian world is widely accepted for the initiation of the Neolithic, a study of the meaning behind shared cultural features (Neolithic Package) has seldom been undertaken so far. This contribution will focus on the Neolithic Lifestyle of these early farming communities by discussing the archaeological evidence of the Starčevo horizon, especially along the Southern Morava River Valley in south Serbia and northern Macedonia. Various economic, social and technological aspects will be discussed in the context of the Neolithic dispersal and potential regional diversities. What do we know about the early Neolithic way of life in pre-Vinča times beyond pottery decoration systems and figurative art? How can the archaeological evidence be linked with contemporaneous household societies, village-based and agricultural communities further south? Which aspects of the Aegean-Anatolian Neolithic Lifestyle are evident on the central Balkans and which can be defined as autochthonous regionally developed concepts? This contribution shed new light on this old debate by contextualizing primary field data of excavations and analyses in Anatolia (Çukuriçi Höyük) and Serbia (Svinjarička Čuka).