Demography of the Early Neolithic Population in Central Balkans: Population Dynamics Reconstruction Using Summed Radiocarbon Probability Distributions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The Central Balkans region is of great importance for understanding the spread of the Neolithic in Europe but the Early Neolithic population dynamics of the region is unknown.
Marko Porčić +2 more
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Early Neolithic Pottery from Western Belarus [PDF]
Archaeologia Baltica, 2018 The paper discusses Early Neolithic pottery of Dubiciai type from western Belarus. Its most distinctive features include organic temper in the clay mass, a belt of deep round pits under the rim, strokes made by a round stick (‘hooves’), and thin slanting grooved lines or slanting decoration with such lines.
Aleh Tkachou
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Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2018 The later phase of the Central European Early Neolithic witnessed a rise in collective lethal violence to a level undocumented up to this date. This is evidenced by repeated massacres of settled communities of the Linearbandkeramik (ca. 5600–4900 cal bc),
Meyer C +7 more
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Molecular and isotopic evidence for the processing of starchy plants in Early Neolithic pottery from China. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2018 Organic residue analysis of ancient ceramic vessels enables the investigation of natural resources that were used in daily cooking practices in different part of the world.
Shoda S +8 more
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Early Neolithic imagery in flux
Documenta Praehistorica, 2023 Stone is often regarded as the ideal medium for the long-term preservation of knowledge, as it is resistant to change. Early to middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey has repeatedly been treated as a prime example for such ...
Oliver Dietrich, Julia Wagner
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Ancient European dog genomes reveal continuity since the Early Neolithic. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2017 Europe has played a major role in dog evolution, harbouring the oldest uncontested Palaeolithic remains and having been the centre of modern dog breed creation.
Botigué LR +15 more
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Population Replacement in Early Neolithic Britain [PDF]
bioRxiv, 2018 The roles of migration, admixture and acculturation in the European transition to farming have been debated for over 100 years. Genome-wide ancient DNA studies indicate predominantly Anatolian ancestry for continental Neolithic farmers, but also variable admixture with local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers1–9.
Brace, Selina +20 more
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Dated phylogeny suggests early Neolithic origin of Sino-Tibetan languages. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Zhang H, Ji T, Pagel M, Mace R.
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Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain. [PDF]
Nat Ecol Evol, 2019 Brace S +26 more
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The genetics of an early Neolithic pastoralist from the Zagros, Iran. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2016 The agricultural transition profoundly changed human societies. We sequenced and analysed the first genome (1.39x) of an early Neolithic woman from Ganj Dareh, in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, a site with early evidence for an economy based on goat ...
Gallego-Llorente M +15 more
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