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Modelling the initial expansion of the Neolithic out of Anatolia

Documenta Praehistorica, 2015
Using the space-time distribution of 1162 uniformly recalibrated dates from 71 sites in Asia Minor, the Aegean Basin, Southern Thrace and Macedonia, this article presents geostatistical (kriging) and graphical simulations of the Neolithic expansion out ...
Maxime Brami, Andrea Zanotti
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Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant

Nature, 2023
AbstractIn northwestern Africa, lifestyle transitioned from foraging to food production around 7,400 years ago but what sparked that change remains unclear. Archaeological data support conflicting views: (1) that migrant European Neolithic farmers brought the new way of life to North Africa1–3 or (2) that local hunter-gatherers adopted technological ...
Simões, Luciana G., Günther, Torsten, Martínez-Sánchez, Rafael M., Vera-Rodríguez, Juan Carlos, Iriarte Avilés, Eneko, Rodríguez-Varela, Ricardo, Bokbot, Youssef, Valdiosera Morales, Cristina Eugenia, Jakobsson, Mattias, Jakobsson   +9 more
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Local increases in admixture with hunter-gatherers followed the initial expansion of Neolithic farmers across continental Europe. [PDF]

Sci Adv
The replacement of hunter-gatherer lifestyles by agriculture represents a pivotal change in human history. The initial stage of this Neolithic transition in Europe was instigated by the migration of farmers from Anatolia and the Aegean basin. In this study, we modeled the expansion of Neolithic farmers into central Europe along the continental route of
Tsoupas A, Reyna-Blanco CS, Quilodrán CS, Blöcher J, Brami M, Wegmann D, Burger J, Currat M.   +7 more
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A comparative study of the Initial Neolithic chipped-stone assemblages of Ulucak and Uğurlu

Anatolian Studies, 2019
AbstractThis article focuses on the Initial Neolithic (ca 6850–6500 cal. BC) lithic assemblages of Ulucak and Uğurlu in the Aegean region of Turkey. Ulucak and Uğurlu are among the earliest Aegean Neolithic sites, and their lithic industries were managed with specific traditions and skills, quite different from what we know of the industry for other ...
Guilbeau, Denis, Kayacan, Nurcan, Altinbilek, Çiler, Erdoğu, Burçin, Çevik, Özlem   +4 more
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Early seventh-millennium AMS dates from domestic seeds in the Initial Neolithic at Franchthi Cave (Argolid, Greece) [PDF]

Antiquity, 2013
When, and by what route, did farming first reach Europe? A terrestrial model might envisage a gradual advance around the northern fringes of the Aegean, reaching Thrace and Macedonia before continuing southwards to Thessaly and the Peloponnese. New dates from Franchthi Cave in southern Greece, reported here, cast doubt on such a model, indicating that ...
Perlès, Catherine, Quiles, Anita, Valladas, Hélène   +2 more
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Archaeological evidence for initial migration of Neolithic Proto Sino-Tibetan speakers from Yellow River valley to Tibetan Plateau

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022
Sino-Tibetan is the second largest language family in the world. Recent linguistic and genetic studies have traced its origin to Neolithic millet farmers in the Yellow River region of China around 8,000 y ago and also suggested that initial divergence among branches of Sino-Tibetan coincided with expansion of the Neolithic Yangshao
Li Liu, Jian Chen, Jiajing Wang, Yanan Zhao, Xingcan Chen   +4 more
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The earliest centres of pottery origin in the Russian Far East and Siberia: review of chronology for the oldest Neolithic cultures

Documenta Praehistorica, 2002
The earliest pottery from the Russian Far East, Osipovka and Gromatukha cultural complexes, was radiocarbon-dated to c. 13 300–12 300 BP. In Siberia, the earliest pottery is known from the Ust-Karenga complex, dated to c. 11 200–10 800 BP.
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
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Izmir-Yeşilova Höyük and The Architecture of Coastal Aegean in the Late Neolithic Period

Höyük, 2023
The Yeşilova Höyük excavation team has diligently worked to uncover the historical significance of this archaeological site located in the heart of the Bornova Plain.
Zafer Derin
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The Early and Middle Neolithic in NW Russia: radiocarbon chronologies from the Sukhona and Onega regions

Documenta Praehistorica, 2017
The onset of the Neolithic period in the Russian North is defined by the emergence of pottery vessels in the archaeological record. The ceramics produced by mobile hunter-gatherer-fisher groups in the north-eastern European forest zone are among the ...
Henny Piezonka, Nadezhda Nedomolkina, Marina Ivanishcheva, Natalya Kosorukova, Marianna Kulkova, John Meadows   +5 more
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The earliest Neolithic complex in Siberia: the Ust-Karenga 12 site and its significance for the Neolithisation process in Eurasia

Documenta Praehistorica, 2007
The discovery of Neolithic (i.e. pottery-containing) components at the Ust-Karenga 12 site in northern Transbaikal brought to light new data on the appearance of pottery in Siberia. Excavations and geoarchaeological studies identified the pottery complex
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Viktor M. Vetrov
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