How agriculture came to north-central Europe

Bogucki, Peter; Price, T. Douglas

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511607851.009

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“…Residential groups of the LBK of Central Germany typically settled in small farmsteads, consisting of several long houses standing in some distance to each other (Bogucki, 2000;Lüning, 2000). Domestic animals and staple crops were mainly brought from the Near East; there is minimal evidence for autochthonous domestication of animals in Europe Larson et al, 2007).…”

Section: Archaeological Sites and Materialsmentioning

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Early Neolithic diet and animal husbandry: stable isotope evidence from three Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Germany

Oelze

Siebert

Nicklisch

et al. 2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Section: Archaeological Sites and Materialsmentioning

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Early Neolithic diet and animal husbandry: stable isotope evidence from three Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Germany

Oelze

Siebert

Nicklisch

et al. 2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

105

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“…south-east Hungary (Halstead, 1989;Zvelebil and Lillie, 2000), the Alpine Foreland (Bogucki, 1988(Bogucki, , 1996, the North European plain, Britain and Scandinavia (Dennell, 1983;Rowley-Conwy, 1984, 1995Bogucki, 1988Bogucki, , 1996Bogucki, , 2000Zvelebil and Lillie, 2000;Price, 2003). The delay at the southern edge of the Scandinavian basin was possibly the longest; agriculture appeared to halt for a period of 500-1000 years until 4000 BC before being adopted in Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia (Bogucki, 2000). Barley, one of the most adaptable cereals, could be cultivated within the Arctic Circle, at up to latitude of 70 (Vorren, 2005).…”

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Latitudinal variation in a photoperiod response gene in European barley: insight into the dynamics of agricultural spread from ‘historic’ specimens

Lister

Thaw

Bower

et al. 2009

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…The presence of numerous settlements of the Neolithic Linear Band Pottery (LBP) culture around the mouth of the River Oder at the southern Baltic coast, centuries before agriculture was introduced in southern Scandinavia, has long been known (Grygiel and Bogucki 1993;Lüning 2000). From these settlements and other contemporaneous ones further east in the area of Cuiavia in Poland (Czerniak 1998), there is scattered but significant evidence of farming and animal husbandry (Heussner 1989;Bogucki 2000). The Neolithic settlements in the area south of the Baltic are dated to a period between 5500 and 4700 B.C.…”

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Plant subsistence and environment at the Mesolithic site Tågerup, southern Sweden: new insights on the “Nut Age”

Regnell

2011

Veget Hist Archaeobot

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Pollen was analysed from a sediment sequence collected in the close vicinity of the Mesolithic settlement Tågerup, southern Sweden. Macroremains were also retrieved from numerous samples taken at the site of the archaeological excavations of Kongemose and Ertebølle settlement phases, 6700-6000 B.C. and 5500-4900 B.C. respectively. Plants and other organic remains were well preserved in the refuse layers from the settlements embedded in the gyttja. The pollen record includes no clear indications of human impact on the vegetation during the Mesolithic. The occurrence of charcoal particles and pollen of grass and herbs associated with nutrient-rich soils are contemporaneous with the Kongemose settlement. The Ertebølle settlement phase, although characterised by considerable dwelling activities less than a hundred metres from the pollen sampling site, is scarcely seen in the pollen data. Numerous finds of crushed dogwood stones from the Kongemose phase, often partly carbonised, suggest that these stones were used for the extraction of oil. Other plants found in the Kongemose refuse layers that may have been used are apples, cherries, raspberries, acorns and rowan-berries. Based on the abundance of hazelnut shells found at the studied site and in other studies of Mesolithic sites in southern Scandinavia it is proposed that these remains may testify to an important food supply rather than just use as a supplement to animal protein. It is also hypothesised that a regional decrease in hazel populations and thus hazelnut availability at the end of the Mesolithic may have motivated the adoption of Neolithic subsistence.

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How agriculture came to north-central Europe

Cited by 57 publications

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Early Neolithic diet and animal husbandry: stable isotope evidence from three Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Germany

Early Neolithic diet and animal husbandry: stable isotope evidence from three Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Germany

Latitudinal variation in a photoperiod response gene in European barley: insight into the dynamics of agricultural spread from ‘historic’ specimens

Plant subsistence and environment at the Mesolithic site Tågerup, southern Sweden: new insights on the “Nut Age”

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