Human adaptation to past climate changes in the northern Pontic steppe

Direct evidence for positive selection of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in Europeans during the last 5,000 y

“…The individuals analyzed in this study lived ∼500-2,000 y after the arrival of farming in the region north of the Black Sea (42,43). In many parts of Europe, the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition is associated with a switch from a vitamin D-rich aquatic or gamebased hunter-gatherer diet (44) to a vitamin D-poor agriculturalist diet.…”

Some like it hot: environmental determinism and the pastoral economies of the later prehistoric Eurasian steppe

“…In part, the different dating of the archaeological assemblages selected for comparison in this paper limits their comparability, as long term changes in the climate will have affected the positions of landscape and vegetational zone boundaries, which thus may have influenced the ratios of species kept in certain geographical areas (e.g. Kotova and Makhortykh 2010;Kremenetski 2003). However, the comparison of the later prehistoric animal bone assemblages and the modern and historic livestock herd compositions (Figures 2, 4 and 5) show a number of consistencies indicating the strong influence of the environment on the pastoral economies practiced across the Eurasian steppe.…”

“…The steppe can be divided into two broad climatic regions: with the area west of the Ural Mountains having a continental and temperate climate, and that to the east being continental (Kotova and Makhortykh 2010;Kremenetske 2003). As seen in Table 1 winter temperatures in the eastern steppe can dip as low as around -30°C in the easterly and northerly areas.…”

Climatic Influences on Appearance and Development of Neolithic Cultures in Southern Outskirts of Carpathian Basin

“…The bibliography consulted is extensive (Alley et al, 1997;Bond et al, 1997;Bianchi and McCave, 1999;Hu et al, 1999;Perry and Hsu, 2000;Bond et al, 2001;Ogutsov et al, 2001;Sümegi et al, 2002;Magny et al, 2003;Mayewski et al, 2004;Alley and Ágústsdóttir, 2005;Bailey, 2006;Kuper and Kröpelin, 2006;Weninger et al, 2006;BoutRoumazeilles et al, 2007;Budja, 2007;Thomas et al, 2007;Weninger et al, 2007;Clare et al, 2008;Weninger et al, 2008;Berger and Guilaine, 2009;Bocquet-Appel et al, 2009;Gronenborn, 2009;Gronenborn and Sirocko, 2009;Kotova, 2009;Weninger et al, 2009;Clare and Weninger, 2010;Kotova and Makhortykh, 2010;Gulýas and Sümegi, 2011;Lemmen et al, 2011;Carozza et al, 2012;Welc and Marks, 2014 -all with their corresponding bibliography) but we will only take specific RCC intervals into consideration and their correlation with archaeological indicators for the observed region of Slavonia.…”