Multi-isotope proveniencing of human remains from a Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley in northeast Germany

Price, T. Douglas; Frei, Robert; Brinker, Ute; Lidke, Gundula; Terberger, Thomas; Frei, Karin Margarita; Jantzen, Detlef

doi:10.1007/s12520-017-0529-y

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“…Based on archeological finds at the battlefield, it has been hypothesized that some of the warriors came from southern Central Europe, i.e., South-eastern Germany and Bohemia [25][26][27]. Carbon and strontium isotope ratios further suggest a mixture of locals and non-locals [28]. Although it is possible that our data are insufficient to resolve genetic affinities at such a small geographic scale, it appears likely that the Tollense individuals were sampled from a relatively homogeneous population with a high degree of continuity to those living in the same broad region today.…”

Section: Tollense Population Is From Central/northern Europementioning

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Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years

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Lactase persistence (LP), the continued expression of lactase into adulthood, is the most strongly selected single gene trait over the last 10,000 years in multiple human populations. It has been posited that the primary allele causing LP among Eurasians, rs4988235-A [1], only rose to appreciable frequencies during the Bronze and Iron Ages [2, 3], long after humans started consuming milk from domesticated animals. This rapid rise has been attributed to an influx of people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe that began around 5,000 years ago [4, 5]. We investigate the spatiotemporal spread of LP through an analysis of 14 warriors from the Tollense Bronze Age battlefield in northern Germany ($3,200 before present, BP), the oldest large-scale conflict site north of the Alps. Genetic data indicate that these individuals represent a single unstructured Central/Northern European population. We complemented these data with genotypes of 18 individuals from the Bronze Age site Mokrin in Serbia

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Section: Tollense Population Is From Central/northern Europementioning

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Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years

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“…Recent advances in human mobility investigations based on aDNA and isotopic scientific analyses are currently providing unprecedented opportunities to investigate ancient socio-cultural flux directly from human remains (e.g. Evans et al, 2006;Haak, et al, 2008;Allentoft et al, 2015;Frei et al, 2015bFrei et al, , 2017Kristiansen et al, 2017;Price et al, 2019). Consequently, it seems opportune to try to start investigating human mobility patterns in a new light.…”

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Interpreting Past Human Mobility Patterns: A Model

Reiter

Frei

2019

Eur. j. archaeol

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In the last decade, the exponential increase in migration studies focusing on the mobility of groups and single individuals—mostly based on aDNA and strontium isotope analyses—has provided an important extra layer of information regarding past social dynamics. The current relatively large quantity of data and their constant increase provide an opportunity to examine human mobility in unprecedented detail. In short, the course of academic dialogue is changing from producing evidence for movement to examining differences or similarities in human mobilities across temporal and geographical barriers. Moreover, the amount and type of new data are beginning to provide new kinds of information that can help us grasp why that movement first came about. We present the first potential mobility model focusing on single individuals during different life stages based on in vivo movement patterns. We draw on previous studies in recent mobility research that provide a variety of case studies to illustrate the model. We hope that this model will prove valuable for future discussions regarding human mobility by integrating the present archaeological contextual discourse with the increasing body of data being produced.

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“…A preferred direction of the onset of sedimentation against or along the decline of the valley is not recognisable. Furthermore no influence of the backlog caused by the Littorina transgression (Richter, 1968;Michaelis and Joosten, 2007) could be detected. The stratigraphies within the mire can be described as three standard profiles (Fig.…”

Section: Weichselian Late Glacial To Holocene Valley Formationmentioning

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“…There are also healed lesions, some of which stem from weapon use, which indicate that some individuals had also encountered violence in previous situations (Brinker et al, 2018). Analyses of aDNA and isotopes (Sr, C, N) point to a heterogeneous population group (Terberger and Heinemeier, 2014a;Price et al, 2017). Calculating from the number of the dead in the valley at least hundreds of battle participants are likely, representing a not purely local population.…”

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The Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley &#8211; conflict archaeology and Holocene landscape reconstruction

Lidke

Lorenz

2019

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Abstract. Archaeological discoveries in the Tollense Valley represent remains of a Bronze Age battle of ca. 1300–1250 BCE, documenting a violent group conflict hitherto unimagined for this period of time in Europe, changing the perception of the Bronze Age. Geoscientific, geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical investigations have reconstructed a tree- and shrubless mire characterised by sedges, reed and semiaquatic conditions with a shallow but wide river Tollense for the Bronze Age. The exact river course cannot be reconstructed, but the distribution of fluvial deposits traces only a narrow corridor, in which the Tollense meandered close to the current riverbed. The initial formation of the valley mire dates to the transition from the Weichselian Late Glacial to the early Holocene.

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Multi-isotope proveniencing of human remains from a Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley in northeast Germany

Cited by 52 publications

References 41 publications

Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years

Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years

Interpreting Past Human Mobility Patterns: A Model

The Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley &#8211; conflict archaeology and Holocene landscape reconstruction

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Multi-isotope proveniencing of human remains from a Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley in northeast Germany

Cited by 52 publications

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Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years

Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years

Interpreting Past Human Mobility Patterns: A Model

The Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley &amp;#8211; conflict archaeology and Holocene landscape reconstruction

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