The mesolithic of Western Europe

Price, T. Douglas

doi:10.1007/bf00975322

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“…Instead, researchers subscribing to the indigenist perspective, especially those working in the western Mediterranean, argued that cultural and not demic diffusion was the primary engine driving this transition. Specifically, proponents maintained that the selective adoption of various elements of the Neolithic package by indigenous populations around the Mediterranean could have happened through trade and technology transfer alone without any direct contact between indigenous huntergatherers and colonizing farming populations from the east (41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46).…”

Section: The Diffusion Of Animal Domesticates In the Mediterranean Basinmentioning

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Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

Zeder

2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The past decade has witnessed a quantum leap in our understanding of the origins, diffusion, and impact of early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin. In large measure these advances are attributable to new methods for documenting domestication in plants and animals. The initial steps toward plant and animal domestication in the Eastern Mediterranean can now be pushed back to the 12th millennium cal B.P. Evidence for herd management and crop cultivation appears at least 1,000 years earlier than the morphological changes traditionally used to document domestication. Different species seem to have been domesticated in different parts of the Fertile Crescent, with genetic analyses detecting multiple domestic lineages for each species. Recent evidence suggests that the expansion of domesticates and agricultural economies across the Mediterranean was accomplished by several waves of seafaring colonists who established coastal farming enclaves around the Mediterranean Basin. This process also involved the adoption of domesticates and domestic technologies by indigenous populations and the local domestication of some endemic species. Human environmental impacts are seen in the complete replacement of endemic island faunas by imported mainland fauna and in today's anthropogenic, but threatened, Mediterranean landscapes where sustainable agricultural practices have helped maintain high biodiversity since the Neolithic.archaeology ͉ livestock

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Section: The Diffusion Of Animal Domesticates In the Mediterranean Basinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

Zeder

2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

897

612

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“…At a higher altitude, on drier soils, closed Quercus forests may have evolved during this period of time with significant Corylus shrub presence. Based on the significant dominance of Corylus and Clematis vitalba it is conceivable that human communities might have had a significant effect on the forest environment during the Mesolithic [45][46][47][48][49]. Notably, the dominance of pollen from Corylus and a cyclic decrease in Quercus pollen has also been observed at many other locations in the Carpathian Basin between 7000 and 6000 BC [3, 43, 50-52].…”

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Charcoal and pollen analyses and vegetation reconstruction of the Alpine foreland in West Hungary

2012

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“…The date ranges for them are listed in the Table 1. They were all confirmed by the archaeological excavations [22][23][24].…”

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On Typical Materials Acting as the Dividing Standard of the Development Stages of Human Substance Civilization

Zhang¹

2012

: Interdiscip. Descr. Complex Syst.

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During more than three million years, the substance civilization of human society went through the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Steel and Cement Age, and the Silicon Age. At the beginning of the new century, the human society has entered into the Nanomaterials Age, which indicates that a completely new substance civilization of human society has started. This paper analyses and discusses why the typical materials serve as the only standard for dividing the eras of the substance civilization of human society. The author argues about the subject of dividing the substance civilization of human society. The goal is to initiate broad and thorough discussion of that subject so as to get a rather thorough understanding about it.

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The mesolithic of Western Europe

Cited by 49 publications

References 57 publications

Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

Charcoal and pollen analyses and vegetation reconstruction of the Alpine foreland in West Hungary

On Typical Materials Acting as the Dividing Standard of the Development Stages of Human Substance Civilization

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