Migrant farmers and the Neolithic colonization of Crete

Broodbank, Cyprian; Strasser, Thomas F.

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00079680

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“…1 It is therefore intriguing that the Lasithi Plateau population only presents 12.2% of J chromosomes, compared with values of more than 47% in both the Heraklion Prefecture and Lasithi Prefecture collections. Similarly, only 4.9% of chromosomes in the Lasithi Plateau group correspond to the E haplogroup, compared to more than 10% in the former two populations.…”

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“…1 This founding group was mainly composed of early Neolithic farmers who established their first settlements in the fertile lowland regions of Crete. Approximately 4000 years later, this population in part formed the basis of what has since been termed the Minoan culture, a pre-Hellenic Bronze-Age civilization that prospered from mercantilism and trade with other Mediterranean civilizations.…”

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Paleolithic Y-haplogroup heritage predominates in a Cretan highland plateau

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The island of Crete, credited by some historical scholars as a central crucible of western civilization, has been under continuous archeological investigation since the second half of the nineteenth century. In the present work, the geographic stratification of the contemporary Cretan Y-chromosome gene pool was assessed by high-resolution haplotyping to investigate the potential imprints of past colonization episodes and the population substructure. In addition to analyzing the possible geographic origins of Y-chromosome lineages in relatively accessible areas of the island, this study includes samples from the isolated interior of the Lasithi Plateau -a mountain plain located in eastern Crete. The potential significance of the results from the latter region is underscored by the possibility that this region was used as a Minoan refugium. Comparisons of Y-haplogroup frequencies among three Cretan populations as well as with published data from additional Mediterranean locations revealed significant differences in the frequency distributions of Y-chromosome haplogroups within the island. The most outstanding differences were observed in haplogroups J2 and R1, with the predominance of haplogroup R lineages in the Lasithi Plateau and of haplogroup J lineages in the more accessible regions of the island. Y-STR-based analyses demonstrated the close affinity that R1a1 chromosomes from the Lasithi Plateau shared with those from the Balkans, but not with those from lowland eastern Crete. In contrast, Cretan R1b microsatellite-defined haplotypes displayed more resemblance to those from Northeast Italy than to those from Turkey and the Balkans.

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Paleolithic Y-haplogroup heritage predominates in a Cretan highland plateau

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“…Other cultural elements have been easier to plot, and forms of pottery and houses, lithic technologies, and raw materials may collectively imply a specific 'cultural' identity. Some models seek to explain how and why populations colonize new territory and cross social and economic frontiers (Alexander 1977), including biogeographical approaches relating to island colonization, population densities, size, and distance (Cherry 1981;Broodbank and Strasser 1991;Rainbird 1999). Islands hold particular interest for archaeological models, given their defined space and identity.…”

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The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe

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Harding²,

Hofmann³

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The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

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and KeywordsThe Mediterranean region represented a significant zone for the transmission of the Neolithic and its farming economy. This essay reviews the different mechanisms and geographic constraints that influenced the movement of farming and cultural trends, and assesses the current interpretative models as well as traditional approaches in the context of recent archaeological discoveries and publication. Neolithic evidence across southern Europe, from the Near East, Aegean, north Africa and to Iberia and France, is described in the different regions and set against the current chronology. Key issues include the parallel development of settled farmers alongside mobile hunter-gatherers and their gradual assimilation into food producing societies, and the longevity of the typical Mediterranean economy.

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“…In the face of archaeo logical evidence it is with great security established that maritime activities were part of the Neolithic way of life in the Aegean and Eastern Mediter¬ ranean that allowed people, animals, plants and goods to circulate (for details see Broodbank 2006;Broodbank and Strasser 1991;Cherry 1990). …”

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“…According to Broodbank and Strasser (Broodbank and Strasser 1991), agro-pastoral seafaring entailed different ideological parameters than forager sea¬ faring, as the purpose was fundamentally differ¬ ent, technology differed, and, of course, much more careful planning was involved. They estimate that a founder group of a minimum of 40 individuals had to carry around 15,000-19,000 kg of food substances in order to survive the first winter until they could create their fields and begin to harvest (Broodbank and Strasser 1991: tab.…”

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