Migration, acculturation and culture change in western temperate Eurasia,

Gronenborn, Detlef

doi:10.4312/dp.30.3

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“…This implies that, on the male side, intrusive lineages from the Near East only spread through the first burst of Neolithic settlement in Europe around the eastern Mediterranean basin, but were not carried to an appreciable extent into central Europe with the LBK. This in turn supports the view that high levels of acculturation took place in the Balkans prior to the LBK expansion (Gronenborn 1999;2003). The Near Eastern lineages that spread through the eastern and central Mediterranean in the early Neolithic would have been subsequently overlaid by later Near Eastern dispersals.…”

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“…We are left with a number of mixed migrationist/diffusionist models that are not mutually exclusive (Gronenborn 1999;2003;Zvelebil 2000;. The evidence of mtDNA and the Y chromosome seems to be consistent with pioneer leapfrog colonization and infiltration of southeast and central Europe, and the subsequent infilling acculturation of much larger numbers of indigenous foragers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…Strontium isotope analysis has recently suggested immigrations of nonlocal people into LBK settlements from very early times (Bentley et al 2002). It is possible that some of these were brought in from the surrounding foraging communities (Gronenborn 1999).…”

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The Neolithic transition in Europe: archaeological models and genetic evidence

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2003

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The major pattern in the European gene pool is a southeast-northwest frequency gradient of classic genetic markers such as blood groups, which population geneticists initially attributed to the demographic impact of Neolithic farmers dispersing from the Near East. Molecular genetics has enriched this picture, with analyses of mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome allowing a more detailed exploration of alternative models for the spread of the Neolithic into Europe. This paper considers a range of possible models in the light of the detailed information now emerging from genetic studies.

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The Neolithic transition in Europe: archaeological models and genetic evidence

Richards

2003

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“…The studies we have cited support archaeological evidence that suggests that intermarriage with indigenous women may have been the predominant form of marriage altogether for the men in the fi rst colonist groups (Gronenborn 2003). Isotopic analyses of skeletal remains from Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in central Europe (Bentley et al 2002(Bentley et al , 2008 indicate that residence patterns among the newly arrived populations were patrilocal and that some households may even have been nuclear families (Bentley et al 2008).…”

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Kinship, Marriage, and the Genetics of Past Human Dispersals

2009

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The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or "replaced" indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having intermarried with them, has been widely debated. Indigenous-colonist "admixture" is often represented in genetic models as a single parameter that, although parsimonious and simple, is incongruous with the sex-specifi c nature of mtDNA and Y-chromosome data. To help interpret genetic patterns, we can construct useful null hypotheses about the generalized migration history of females (mtDNA) as opposed to males (Y chromosome), which differ signifi cantly in almost every ethnographically known society. We seek to integrate ethnographic knowledge into models that incorporate new social parameters for predicting geographic patterns in mtDNA and Y-chromosome distributions. We provide an example of a model simulation for the spread of agriculture in which this individual-scale evidence is used to refine the parameters. Abstract The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or "replaced" indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having intermarried with them, has been widely debated. Indigenous-colonist "admixture" is often represented in genetic models as a single parameter that, although parsimonious and simple, is incongruous with the sex-specifi c nature of mtDNA and Y-chromosome data. To help interpret genetic patterns, we can construct useful null hypotheses about the generalized migration history of females (mtDNA) as opposed to males (Y chromosome), which differ significantly in almost every ethnographically known society. We seek to integrate ethnographic knowledge into models that incorporate new social parameters for predicting geographic patterns in mtDNA and Y-chromosome distributions.We provide an example of a model simulation for the spread of agriculture in which this individual-scale evidence is used to refi ne the parameters.Understanding the processes through which populations grow and disperse is crucial to the study of human history and diversity and forms a major topic in anthropology and other related disciplines. A key problem is determining the extent to which colonizing populations (e.g., modern humans, Neolithic farmers, European colonists) overwhelmed or "replaced" native populations (e.g., Neanderthals, hunter-gatherers, non-European indigenous societies), as opposed to having integrated into or intermarried with them. These issues have been debated by numerous researchers in a variety of different historical and regional contexts, but no consensus has yet been reached about whether or not it is possible to discern any general patterns. Here, we aim to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of human migratory activity by integrating data drawn from several disciplines, namely, archaeology, ethnography, and human genetics. Our critique focuses on the highly infl uential wave of advance model of human dispersals, as fi rst developed by Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza (1984). We argue that this model is not equipped to con...

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“…The period discussed in this article is attributed to the Neolithic, more precisely to the epoch also known as the 'Boreal Neolithic', 'Sub-Neolithic', 'Initial Neolithic' (Davison et al 2007.140;Gronenborn 2010;Dolukhanov, Shukurov 2009.36;etc.). This era is traditionally divided into three stages: early, middle and late.…”

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confidence: 99%