Re-Identification of Plant Impressions on Prehistoric Pottery from Ukraine

Endo, Eiko; Nasu, Hiroo; Haskevych, Dmytro; Gershkovych, Yakiv; Videiko, Mykhailo; Yanevich, Olexandr

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3943533

Cited by 2 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 28 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Further west in the Lower Danube region, regionally distinguishable burial customs reflect the adaptation of incoming pastoralists to the local populations of the tell settlements [ 225 ]. Within a few generations, culturally and linguistically diversifying Yamnaya groups would have had ample opportunity to acquire extensive knowledge of local agricultural practices, such as the use of plows, plowshares and sickles, as they have been documented archaeologically in the region in the fourth millennium BCE [ 43 ; 127 :88–95; 162 :48; 212 ], as indicated in Fig 3 .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In conclusion, although archaeologists traditionally do not agree on the question of whether agriculture was practiced by steppe pastoralists, i.e. whether it was practiced sporadically, or in fact, not at all, current consensus appears to be leaning toward a negative answer [ 43 ]. Given these increasingly pessimistic results, the assumption that Proto-Indo-European had a wide range of terms for cereal cultivation and processing is not unambiguously consistent with the Steppe Hypothesis.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages

et al. 2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Questions on the timing and the center of the Indo-European language dispersal are central to debates on the formation of the European and Asian linguistic landscapes and are deeply intertwined with questions on the archaeology and population history of these continents. Recent palaeogenomic studies support scenarios in which the core Indo-European languages spread with the expansion of Early Bronze Age Yamnaya herders that originally inhabited the East European steppes. Questions on the Yamnaya and Pre-Yamnaya locations of the language community that ultimately gave rise to the Indo-European language family are heavily dependent on linguistic reconstruction of the subsistence of Proto-Indo-European speakers. A central question, therefore, is how important the role of agriculture was among the speakers of this protolanguage. In this study, we perform a qualitative etymological analysis of all previously postulated Proto-Indo-European terminology related to cereal cultivation and cereal processing. On the basis of the evolution of the subsistence strategies of consecutive stages of the protolanguage, we find that one or perhaps two cereal terms can be reconstructed for the basal Indo-European stage, also known as Indo-Anatolian, but that core Indo-European, here also including Tocharian, acquired a more elaborate set of terms. Thus, we linguistically document an important economic shift from a mostly non-agricultural to a mixed agro-pastoral economy between the basal and core Indo-European speech communities. It follows that the early, eastern Yamnaya of the Don-Volga steppe, with its lack of evidence for agricultural practices, does not offer a perfect archaeological proxy for the core Indo-European language community and that this stage of the language family more likely reflects a mixed subsistence as proposed for western Yamnaya groups around or to the west of the Dnieper River.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages

et al. 2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Recently, a growing amount of data sheds doubt on the acquaintance of the indigenous groups of the Southern Buh River with an agriculture-based economy. The imprints of domestic plant seeds and pericarps in shards of para-Neolithic pottery were reexamined, and no compelling evidence of domesticates was found [14,84]. The archeozoological collections contained either no domestic animal bones or were mixed with later materials, thus casting doubt on the evidence of herding [85].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Soils of Early Farmers and Their Neighbors in the Southern Buh Catchment (Ukraine): Micromorphology and Archaeological Context

Kiosak

Matviishyna

2023

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The problems regarding hunter-gatherer/early farmer interactions are quite an important topic in southeast European archaeology. According to the available data, the two economic subsistence systems have coexisted for some 2000 years during the 6th–4th millennia cal BC (Telegin 1985; Lillie et al., 2001). In some areas, hunter-gatherer and early farmer sites are located just a few kilometers apart. The Southern Buh River valley has yielded evidence of Linear Pottery culture, early Trypillia and Trypillia B1 Neolithic settlements as well as hunter-gatherer sites with pottery attributable to the so-called sub-Neolithic or para-Neolithic (Haskevych et al., 2019; Kiosak et al., 2021). Trial-trenches have been opened within some of these sites, which have been radiocarbon-dated from Bern University laboratory (LARA). Soil samples for micromorphological analysis have been collected from these sites to interpret their paleogenetic formation. The soil development is attested since, at least, the beginning of the 5th mill BC, followed by the developed of chernozem soils, which was interrupted by an erosional episode in the end of 5th millennium BC. The available data show that the soils of early farmers arable as are the present day ones. The early farmers were able to exploit relatively heavy soils to cultivate wheat and barley as early as 5250–5050 cal BC. In contrast, the sites of ceramic hunter-gatherers were often located on the soils which formed under wet conditions along seasonally flooded riverbanks, which were almost unsuitable for agricultural practices.

show abstract

Re-Identification of Plant Impressions on Prehistoric Pottery from Ukraine

Cited by 2 publications

References 28 publications

Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages

Indo-European cereal terminology suggests a Northwest Pontic homeland for the core Indo-European languages

The Soils of Early Farmers and Their Neighbors in the Southern Buh Catchment (Ukraine): Micromorphology and Archaeological Context

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About