The Built Environment and Cultural Connectivity in the Aegean Early Bronze Age

Kouka, Ourania

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“…Our initial motivation was to investigate population structure and admixture patterns in the East Mediterranean during the Bronze Ages, a period which saw population growth and extensive interregional trade networks being established, as inferred from material culture data (Şahoğlu 2005;Kouka 2016;Massa 2016). We studied genetic affinities between published genomic data from n=6 BA populations from modern-day Greece (2400-1070 BCE) and n=5 populations from BA East Anatolia (3700-1303 BCE) (Lazaridis et al 2017;Skourtanioti et al 2020;Lazaridis et al 2022b) (Table S1, Figure S2).…”

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An explanation for the sister repulsion phenomenon in Patterson’s f-statistics

Atağ,

Waldman,

Carmi

et al. 2024

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Patterson’s f-statistics are among the most heavily utilized tools for analysing genome-wide allele frequency data for demographic inference. Beyond studying admixture,f3andf4statistics are also used for clustering populations to identify groups with similar histories. However, previous studies have noted an unexpected behaviour of f-statistics: multiple populations from a certain region systematically show higher genetic affinity to a more distant population than to their neighbours, a pattern that is mismatched with alternative measures of genetic similarity as well as with spatial relationships. We call this counter-intuitive pattern “neighbour repulsion”. Here, we first present a novel instance of neighbour repulsion, where genomes from Bronze Age East Anatolian sites show higher affinity towards Bronze Age Greece rather than their neighbours. This is observed both usingf3- andf4-statistics, contrasts with archaeological/historical expectation, and also contradicts genetic affinity patterns captured using PCA or MDS on genetic distances. We then propose a simple demographic model to explain this pattern, where the neighbouring populations (such as East Anatolia) receive independent gene flow from an external source after their split from each other. Calculatingf3- andf4-statistics using simulated genetic data with varying population genetic parameters, we confirm that low-level gene flow from an external source into populations from one region, as well as unidirectional gene flow between the studied regions, can create neighbour repulsion in f-statistics. Meanwhile, similar to our empirical observations, an MDS analysis of genetic distances can still capture common demographic history between neighbours. Overall, our results highlight the intricate effects of unaccounted population dynamics when inferring shared demographic history using f-statistics.

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An explanation for the sister repulsion phenomenon in Patterson’s f-statistics

Atağ,

Waldman,

Carmi

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“…471 Peperaki 2007. 472 Kouka 2002;Kouka 2013;Kouka 2016a;Kouka 2016b. 473 Christmann 1966Alram-Stern 2004.…”

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Çukuriçi Höyük 4

Cveček¹

2022

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Çukuriçi Höyük 4. Household Economics in the Early Bronze Age Aegean is a pioneering interdisciplinary account of households and socio-political organization in Aegean prehistory, written by a socio-cultural anthropologist embedded in a team of prehistoric archaeologists. Sabina Cveček applies methods of historical anthropology to address key issues in discussing households and socio-political organization at the dawn of the Bronze Age Aegean and beyond. By navigating through the “dwelling perspective” at two prehistoric mound sites, namely Çukuriçi Höyük in western Anatolia (Turkey) and Platia Magoula Zarkou in Thessaly (Greece), Cveček scrutinizes the conflicting relations between metanarratives and site-based archaeological contexts, complemented by historical ethnographic accounts. This unique interdisciplinary contribution will appeal not only to specialists in Aegean prehistory and historical anthropologists, but also to scholars in the social sciences and humanities. It may inspire scholars to recognize the unparalleled value of archaeological materiality in addressing non-state imagined communities, alongside historical, ethnographic, and other written sources.

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Wood charcoal macroremains from the Heraion on Samos: firewood and tree management during the Early-Middle Bronze and Roman periods

Mavromati¹

2022

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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The Built Environment and Cultural Connectivity in the Aegean Early Bronze Age

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An explanation for the sister repulsion phenomenon in Patterson’s f-statistics

An explanation for the sister repulsion phenomenon in Patterson’s f-statistics

Çukuriçi Höyük 4

Wood charcoal macroremains from the Heraion on Samos: firewood and tree management during the Early-Middle Bronze and Roman periods

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