Mobility and social change: understanding the European Neolithic period after the archaeogenetic revolution

M Furholt - Journal of archaeological research, 2021 - Springer
This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to
our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500 …

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

LAF Frantz, J Haile, AT Lin, A Scheu… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by∼ 10,500 y before
the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs …

Earliest expansion of animal husbandry beyond the Mediterranean zone in the sixth millennium BC

J Ethier, E Bánffy, J Vuković, K Leshtakov… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Since their domestication in the Mediterranean zone of Southwest Asia in the eighth
millennium BC, sheep, goats, pigs and cattle have been remarkably successful in colonizing …

Between the Danube and the deep blue sea: Zooarchaeological meta-analysis reveals variability in the spread and development of Neolithic farming across the …

DC Orton, J Gaastra, M Vander Linden - Open Quaternary, 2016 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
The first spread of farming practices into Europe in the Neolithic period involves two
distinct'streams', respectively around the Mediterranean littoral and along the Danube …

Between the Vinča and Linearbandkeramik Worlds: The Diversity of Practices and Identities in the 54th–53rd Centuries cal BC in Southwest Hungary and Beyond

J Jakucs, E Bánffy, K Oross, V Voicsek… - Journal of World …, 2016 - Springer
Perhaps nowhere in European prehistory does the idea of clearly-defined cultural
boundaries remain more current than in the initial Neolithic, where the southeast–northwest …

Pioneer farming in southeast Europe during the early sixth millennium BC: Climate-related adaptations in the exploitation of plants and animals

M Ivanova, B De Cupere, J Ethier, E Marinova - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The Old World farming system arose in the semi-arid Mediterranean environments of
southwest Asia. Pioneer farmers settling the interior of the Balkans by the early sixth …

The end of the affair: formal chronological modelling for the top of the Neolithic tell of Vinča-Belo Brdo

N Tasić, M Marić, K Penezić, D Filipović, K Borojević… - Antiquity, 2015 - cambridge.org
Bayesian statistical frameworks have been used to calculate explicit, quantified estimates for
site chronologies, and have been especially useful for resolving the complex probability …

A Vinča potscape:: formal chronological models for the use and development of Vinča ceramics in south-east Europe

A Whittle, A Bayliss, A Barclay… - Documenta …, 2016 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Recent work at Vinča-Belo Brdo has combined a total of more than 200 radiocarbon dates
with an array of other information to construct much more precise narratives for the structural …

'Go (a) t milk?'New perspectives on the zooarchaeological evidence for the earliest intensification of dairying in south eastern Europe

HJ Greenfield, ER Arnold - World Archaeology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The origins of secondary product exploitation for domestic livestock, in particular milking, is a
long-standing debate in archaeology. This paper re-analyses zooarchaeological age-at …

Evaluating social complexity and inequality in the Balkans between 6500 and 4200 BC

M Porčić - Journal of Archaeological research, 2019 - Springer
The subject of this paper is the social structure and sociocultural evolution of Balkan
Neolithic and Eneolithic societies between 6500 and 4200 BC. I draw on archaeological …