Early seventh-millennium AMS dates from domestic seeds in the Initial Neolithic at Franchthi Cave (Argolid, Greece)

Perlès, Catherine; Quilès, Anita; Valladas, Hélène

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00049826

Cited by 52 publications

(63 citation statements)

References 22 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…BC (95% confidence), suggesting the presence of domesticated emmer wheat in southern Greece likely before ∼6500 cal. BC (38), which is contemporaneous with the analyzed Mesolithic individuals in the Danube Gorges. Although the dated T. dicoccum seeds from Franchthi were tentatively attributed to the Neolithic occupation (38), in the light of our results one may speculate that they relate to forager rather than first farming occupation of the site.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…BC (38), which is contemporaneous with the analyzed Mesolithic individuals in the Danube Gorges. Although the dated T. dicoccum seeds from Franchthi were tentatively attributed to the Neolithic occupation (38), in the light of our results one may speculate that they relate to forager rather than first farming occupation of the site. These dates are also broadly contemporaneous with the Early Neolithic occupation at Ulucak (level VI) on the Turkish side of the Aegean Sea ( Fig.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Dental calculus reveals Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans consumed domesticated plant foods

Cristiani

Radini

Edinborough

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Researchers agree that domesticated plants were introduced into southeast Europe from southwest Asia as a part of a Neolithic "package," which included domesticated animals and artifacts typical of farming communities. It is commonly believed that this package reached inland areas of the Balkans by ∼6200 calibrated (cal.) BC or later. Our analysis of the starch record entrapped in dental calculus of Mesolithic human teeth at the site of Vlasac in the Danube Gorges of the central Balkans provides direct evidence that already by ∼6600 cal. BC, if not earlier, Late Mesolithic foragers of this region consumed domestic cereals, such as Triticum monococcum, Triticum dicoccum, and Hordeum distichon, which were also the main crops found among Early Neolithic communities of southeast Europe. We infer that "exotic" Neolithic domesticated plants were introduced to southern Europe independently almost half a millennium earlier than previously thought, through networks that enabled exchanges between inland Mesolithic foragers and early farming groups found along the Aegean coast of Turkey.Mesolithic foragers | starch analysis | domesticated cereals | forager/farmer interaction | human dental calculus

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Dental calculus reveals Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans consumed domesticated plant foods

Cristiani

Radini

Edinborough

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…However, several sites have now yielded secure radiocarbon dates that demonstrate, without a doubt, that farming was practised across Turkish Thrace, Greece and Bulgaria during the second half of the 9 th mill cal BP (e.g. Lespez et al, 2013, Perlès et al, 2013, Karamitrou-Mentessidi et al, 2015. This being said, the role of the 8.2 ka cal BP event in the process of European Neolithization should not be minimised.…”

Section: 2kya Event and The Spread Of Early Farming (8250±49 Cal Bpmentioning

confidence: 99%

A long hard road… Reviewing the evidence for environmental change and population history in the eastern Adriatic and western Balkans during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

Birch

Linden

2018

Quaternary International

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The eastern Adriatic and western Balkans are key areas for assessing the environmental and population history of Europe during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene. It has been argued that the Balkan region served as a Late Glacial refugium for humans, animals, and plants, much like Iberia and the Italian Peninsula and in contrast to the harsh conditions of Eastern and Central Europe. As post-glacial amelioration occurred and sea level rose, these regions to the north and west of the Balkan Mountains became forested and were populated by Mesolithic forager-fishers. Meanwhile, to the south, the domestication of plants and animals in the Near East began to cause large-scale environmental as well as lifestyle changes. Even as the Balkan Peninsula was a likely crossroads on the route for the spread of agriculture and herding from Southwest Asia into Europe, issues such as pre-Neolithic settlement, the discussion of human-environment interactions, and the role of climate events such as the 11.4, 9.3, and 8.2 ka cal BP in this critical landscape are often overlooked. Efforts to counter this challenge have been hampered by an apparent lack of data, so that the region hardly occurs in distribution maps. In part this is due to patchy research and a complicated political history, which have contributed to a fragmented archaeological and paleoecological record. Yet, as we show here, there is in fact plenty of evidence available for review. We present a survey of different proxies for environment and settlement throughout the Late Pleistocene and into the Early Holocene, combining radiocarbon data with zooarchaeological, lithic, and palynological records. By mapping this evidence, we are able to discuss the impact of climate change during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition and consider the role of environment and landscape on human population distribution at this crossroads in place and time.

show abstract

“…Early Greek Neolithic sites, such as the Franchthi Cave in the Peloponnese, Knossos in Crete, and Mauropigi, Paliambela, and Revenia in northern Greece date to a similar period (7)(8)(9). The distribution of obsidian from the Cycladic islands, as well as similarities in material culture, suggest extensive interactions since the Mesolithic and a coeval Neolithic on both sides of the Aegean (8).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

Hofmanová

Kreutzer

Hellenthal

et al. 2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

408

271

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes. Conspicuous uncertainties remain about the relative roles of migration, cultural diffusion, and admixture with local foragers in the early Neolithization of Europe. Here we present paleogenomic data for five Neolithic individuals from northern Greece and northwestern Turkey spanning the time and region of the earliest spread of farming into Europe. We use a novel approach to recalibrate raw reads and call genotypes from ancient DNA and observe striking genetic similarity both among Aegean early farmers and with those from across Europe. Our study demonstrates a direct genetic link between Mediterranean and Central European early farmers and those of Greece and Anatolia, extending the European Neolithic migratory chain all the way back to southwestern Asia.

show abstract

Early seventh-millennium AMS dates from domestic seeds in the Initial Neolithic at Franchthi Cave (Argolid, Greece)

Cited by 52 publications

References 22 publications

Dental calculus reveals Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans consumed domesticated plant foods

Dental calculus reveals Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans consumed domesticated plant foods

A long hard road… Reviewing the evidence for environmental change and population history in the eastern Adriatic and western Balkans during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About