Population Genetics and Signatures of Selection in Early Neolithic European Farmers. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2022 Human expansion in the course of the Neolithic transition in western Eurasia has been one of the major topics in ancient DNA research in the last 10 years. Multiple studies have shown that the spread of agriculture and animal husbandry from the Near East
Childebayeva A +16 more
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A Healthier Smile in the Past? Dental Caries and Diet in Early Neolithic Farming Communities from Central Germany. [PDF]
Nutrients, 2022 Dental health is closely linked to an individual’s health and diet. This bioarcheological study presents dental caries and stable isotope data obtained from prehistoric individuals (n = 101) from three Early Neolithic sites (c.
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Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent. [PDF]
Science, 2016 Near Eastern genomes from Iran The genetic composition of populations in Europe changed during the Neolithic transition from hunting and gathering to farming. To better understand the origin of modern populations, Broushaki et al.
Broushaki F +31 more
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Cereal processing at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 We analyze the processing of cereals and its role at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Anatolia (10th / 9th millennium BC), a site that has aroused much debate in archaeological discourse.
Dietrich L +7 more
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Ground and abrasive stone tools from the Early Neolithic site of Bataševo (Serbia) [PDF]
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 The rescue excavations in Bataševo in central Serbia showed that it was a multi-layer site, on which occupation traces dated from the Early Neolithic, and then from the Bronze Age and the Roman period to the Middle Ages.
Antonović, D., Dimić, V.
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The origins of specialized pottery and diverse alcohol fermentation techniques in Early Neolithic China. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Significance China is well-known for its distinctive techniques in alcohol fermentation. Here we present archaeological evidence of alcohol making based on analyses of starch granules, phytoliths, and fungi in food residues adhering to 8,000- to 7,000-y ...
Liu L +8 more
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Urine salts elucidate Early Neolithic animal management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2019 Soluble salts in archaeological sediments reveal an increasing scale of caprine management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey. The process of sheep and goat (caprine) domestication began by 9000 to 8000 BCE in Southwest Asia.
Abell JT +6 more
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East Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths. [PDF]
Ann Hum Biol, 2019 In the fourth millennium BCE a cultural phenomenon of monumental burial structures spread along the Atlantic façade. Megalithic burials have been targeted for aDNA analyses, but a gap remains in East Anglia, where Neolithic structures were generally ...
Scheib CL +11 more
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Early Neolithic wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Significance The earliest biomolecular archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence for grape wine and viniculture from the Near East, ca. 6,000–5,800 BC during the early Neolithic Period, was obtained by applying state-of-the-art archaeological ...
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A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb. [PDF]
Nature, 2022 Fowler C +9 more
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