• Analysis of Neolithic human DNA suggests there were two separate migrations from the Fertile Crescent heartland into Anatolia. (natureasia.com)
  • Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia. (natureasia.com)
  • Our time estimates for the expansion and differentiation of hg U7 in the Near East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Europe, however, predate these putative late Neolithic-early Bronze Age migrations and thereby rule them out as a major vehicle for the spread of U7 to Europe and South Asia. (eupedia.com)
  • In any case, they do not believe U7 was related to the Late Neolithic/Early BA migrations that brought a different autosomal component to Europe, West Asia and South Asia, so it might be related to much earlier migrations. (eupedia.com)
  • Y-chromosome and mtDNA polymorphisms in Iraq, a crossroad of the early human dispersal and of post-Neolithic migrations. (poreklo.rs)
  • Here, we employ measurements of Mesolithic (hunter-gatherers) and Neolithic (farmers) crania from Southwest Asia and Europe to test several alternative population dispersal and hunter-farmer gene-flow models. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neolithic farming communities, and the development of Iron Age societies. (edu.au)
  • The Neolithic Revolution, also known as the First Agricultural Revolution, was the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period in Afro-Eurasia from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, making an increasingly large population possible. (wikipedia.org)
  • In many regions, the adoption of agriculture by prehistoric societies caused episodes of rapid population growth, a phenomenon known as the Neolithic demographic transition. (wikipedia.org)
  • The project "Finding suitable grounds" studies the setting and speed of adoption of crop cultivation in the lowlands of the Netherlands during the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition. (rug.nl)
  • Our null model of cultural diffusion allows for admixture between Mesolithic and Neolithic populations living contemporaneously under a model of isolation-by-distance. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Mesolithic Britain continued for another 4000 years and saw the dispersal of these Early Britons across the entire land mass. (roots-travel.co.uk)
  • The early maritime dispersal of Neolithic crops from the Aegean to the western Mediterranean. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • His current research is focused on early hominin dispersals in the Mediterranean basin and around the world. (bu.edu)
  • They are referring to this paper on early Neolithic farmers from Central Europe. (blogspot.com)
  • Genome-wide DNA data collected from people who lived in the Fertile Crescent and surrounding areas during the Neolithic period is enabling scientists to piece together the likely population movements and genetic influences on early farmers in the region. (natureasia.com)
  • By the time pottery became widely used in the late Neolithic (around 7,000 years BC), the Anatolian farmers also had ancestry from the Levant. (natureasia.com)
  • This suggests there were at least two distinct dispersals of farmers into Anatolia: one before pottery was invented, involving people with only Mesopotamian ancestry, and one after, which included those with both Mesopotamian and Levantine ancestry," says Lazaridis. (natureasia.com)
  • Pinhasi et al (2004, 2005) provides both archaeological and anthropological evidence for the dispersal of farmers to Greece. (palaeolexicon.com)
  • id":4667869003859,"title":"Neolithic Bead Pendant Necklace","handle":"neolithic-bead-pendant-necklace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/1715\/files\/carousel-neolithic-bead-1080_1024x1024.jpg?v=1600289974\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-crafted here at Mini Museum, this necklace features a stunning neolithic bead, dating from 5,000 to 12,000 years old. (minimuseum.com)
  • Hand-crafted here at Mini Museum, this necklace features a stunning neolithic bead, dating from 5,000 to 12,000 years old. (minimuseum.com)
  • Long thought to have begun associating with humans at the dawn of the Neolithic Age some 12,000 years ago, when humans first began intensive agricultural efforts, a recent study suggested that in fact house mice began trailing their human providers some 3,000 years earlier. (earth.com)
  • In Somerset, wet-preserved Neolithic remains such as trackways are abundant, but little dry land settlement archaeology is known, and the pre-Neolithic landscape was extensively wooded. (stir.ac.uk)
  • Hominin Dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Hominid Settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia. (mooreamusicpele.com)
  • Excavation of a Neolithic storage bin at the Masis Blur Neolithic settlement on the Ararat Plain, Armenia. (natureasia.com)
  • The purpose of this model is to explore the importance of geographic factors to the settlement choices of early Neolithic agriculturalists. (comses.net)
  • Combined geological and archaeological study of finds at Atlit-Yam, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement submerged off the Carmel coast of northern Israel, provides new information on sediment provenance and dispersal in the southern Levant. (haifa.ac.il)
  • The Neolithic Britons were descended from Neolithic Iberians so seeing North African ancestry in a group partially descended from them isn't suprising. (blogspot.com)
  • Curtis Runnels, Chad DiGregorio, Karl W. Wegmann, Sean F. Gallen, Thomas F. Strasser and Eleni Panagopoulou, 2014, "Lower Palaeolithic Artifacts from Plakias, Crete: Implications for Hominin Dispersals," Eurasian Prehistory 11 (1-2): 129-152. (bu.edu)
  • The main objectives of the project are to 1) identify the geographical origin(s) of poppy including the location(s) of its wild progenitor(s) and of its domestication, 2) define a chrono-cultural framework for its early domestication process and dispersal from Prehistory to the end of the Iron Age (6000-50 cal BC). (mnhn.fr)
  • Often rice is not well-preserved in archaeobotanical assemblages at early Neolithic sites in the wet tropics of Southeast Asia and consequently rice impressions in pottery have been used as a proxy for rice cultivation despite their uncertain taxonomic and domestication status. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The method has the potential to greatly advance the understanding of crop domestication and agricultural dispersal for ceramic cultures in different parts of the world. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to reconstruct the origin, early dispersal and domestication process of opium poppy, that is one of the most important plant species in human history. (mnhn.fr)
  • Thomas P. Leppard and Curtis Runnels, 2017, "Maritime Hominin dispersals in the Pleistocene: advancing the debate," Antiquity 91: 510-519. (bu.edu)
  • This result contrasts with that recently found in a Neolithic population from Central Europe and, therefore, raises new questions on the heterogeneity of the Neolithic dispersals into Europe. (blogspot.com)
  • This homogeneity contrasts with the pronounced heterogeneity found among other Pre-Pottery Neolithic groups in the Near East. (palaeolexicon.com)
  • Agriculture probably reached both Cyprus and the southern Levant within a generation or two in association with Early Neolithic cultural elements from the northern Levant. (ajaonline.org)
  • Phylogeographic analysis shows that the haplogroup composition of the Neolithic population is very similar to that found in modern populations from the Iberian Peninsula, suggesting a long-time genetic continuity, at least since Neolithic times. (blogspot.com)
  • Also in England there is a case of Mit L haplogroup in the Neolithic. (blogspot.com)
  • Albania and Turkey) since 1973 on a wide range of subjects ranging from the early Palaeolithic occupation of the region, to the origins of agriculture, and the emergence of warfare in the Neolithic. (bu.edu)
  • He has recently conducted surveys and laboratory studies on early stone tools as evidence of such dispersals on the island of Crete (Greece) and in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California, amongst other venues. (bu.edu)
  • The conference, "Neolithic Revolution," was conceived in response to new data from Cyprus that have begun to revise the way archaeologists view the emergence of early agricultural societies in southwest Asia and surrounding regions. (ajaonline.org)
  • It is unfortunate that evidence from Shillourokambos was not presented at "Neolithic Revolution," as it remains the only substantial published Early Neolithic/Cypro PPNB site in Cyprus. (ajaonline.org)
  • Another major episode of gene flow affecting the European gene pool appears to have occurred during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, from a source in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe region north of the Caucasus. (eupedia.com)
  • Mathematical Modelling of Early Neolithic Dispersals - University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK - Profs. (avalon-institute.org)
  • In this research, we use microCT technology to determine the 3D microscale morphology of rice husk and spikelet base inclusions within pottery sherds from early Neolithic sites in Vietnam. (elsevierpure.com)
  • The bones and teeth belong to cattle and sheep remains from two early Cretan Neolithic sites, Pelekita Cave in east Crete and the Aposelemis Cemetery in central Crete. (metu.edu.tr)
  • The POPPY project aims to determine the origin and early diffusion of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.). Opium poppy could be the sole plant domesticated during the Neolithic period in Europe, at least from the middle of the sixth millennium. (mnhn.fr)
  • Task 1 will build a database that integrate an exhaustive review of archaeological records to reveal the trajectories and the chrono-cultural framework of poppy dispersal from the Early Neolithic (6000 cal BC) to the end of the Iron Age (50 cal BC). (mnhn.fr)
  • It will confirm and track precisely the early dispersal of the plant. (mnhn.fr)
  • will identify its wild progenitor(s) as well as trace the genetic markers of the early geographical dispersal of the plant. (mnhn.fr)
  • Pinhasi and Pluciennik, in their analysis of craniometric affinities between populations, point to the homogeneity between Çatal höyük and early Neolithic Greek and south-eastern European groups. (palaeolexicon.com)
  • Renfrew (1998) regards the presence of bread-wheat (Triticum aestivum) in stratum X at Knossos of crucial relevance, since this is absent from other early Neolithic sites but present in early levels at Çatal höyük and Can Hasan III in central Anatolia. (palaeolexicon.com)
  • The relationship of the aforementioned Neolithic characteristics to the onset of agriculture, their sequence of emergence, and empirical relation to each other at various Neolithic sites remains the subject of academic debate. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the arrival of agriculture heralding the onset of the next phase of history, the Neolithic, encouraged Man to abandon the itinerant lifestyle and, instead, settle down in communities fixed in the landscape. (roots-travel.co.uk)
  • This set of off-site data will provide new understanding of landscape changes and of the human-environment relationship in the Dutch lowlands since the onset of the Neolithic. (rug.nl)
  • The purpose of this multi-proxy approach is to define the general vegetation characteristics and diversity within the landscape, changes in vegetation cover and which are of due to human management, indications for crop cultivation, and exploring the possibility of intensification and wider dispersal of crop cultivation during this time. (rug.nl)
  • The first scenario implies a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) equivalent population on Cyprus responsible for the introduction of wild species. (ajaonline.org)
  • I believe that R1b1 (P25) people might have been among the first people to domesticate cattle in eastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia/Syria during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period. (eupedia.com)
  • Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic Occupations around Mundafan Palaeolake, Saudi Arabia: Implications for Climate Change and Human Dispersals. (tu-darmstadt.de)
  • A Nubian complex site from central Arabia: Implications for Levallois taxonomy and human dispersals during the Upper Pleistocene. (archaeopresspublishing.com)
  • The surprise is that the Neolithic peoples of Europe and their Bronze Age successors are not closely related to the modern inhabitants, although the prehistoric/modern ties are somewhat more apparent in southern Europe. (blogspot.com)
  • Throughout my career I have also been engaged in various capacities in archaeological heritage, which resulted in the formation and funding of a Centre for Critical Heritage Studies at GU which I directed until 2019, since then as deputy ( www.gu.se/en/critical-heritage-studies ). (gu.se)
  • This seems very unlikely considering out of the couple hundred from Neolithic to Bronze age Spain only two samples have North African ancestry. (blogspot.com)
  • The important thing is that this shows that the BB culture was like a multinational company that controlled the Neolithic sea routes and traded with ivory ostrich eggs, obsidian, salt, variscite, amber and metals. (blogspot.com)
  • Also, would that imply a complete genetic replacement in the steppes after the Neolithic? (eupedia.com)
  • This genetic flow from Europe seems have happened since Neolithic period. (allempires.com)
  • Additionally, this dispersal was not followed by an immediate, single admixture event with Near Oceanian populations, but involved recurrent episodes of genetic interactions. (bvsalud.org)
  • We infer that the East Asian ancestors of Pacific populations may have diverged from Taiwanese Indigenous peoples before the Neolithic expansion, which is thought to have started from Taiwan around 5,000 years ago2-4. (bvsalud.org)
  • We have retrieved HVRI mitochondrial DNA sequences from 11 Neolithic remains from Granollers (Catalonia, northeast Spain) dated to 5500 years BP. (blogspot.com)
  • It has been previously shown that low-frequency mitochondrial haplogroups with relict distributions, similar to hg U7, can be disproportionately informative about ancient human dispersal events. (eupedia.com)
  • Colledge et al (2004) made a study on the archaeobotanical remains recovered from 40 aceramic Neolithic sites in the Near East and south-east Europe. (palaeolexicon.com)
  • One of the most dramatic demographic events, the Neolithic agricultural revolution, took place in the Near East roughly 10000 years ago and then spread through the European continent. (blogspot.com)
  • Across Britain Neolithic Man was trying to understand the world around him. (roots-travel.co.uk)
  • Our results demonstrate that the craniometric data fit a model of continuous dispersal of people (and their genes) from Southwest Asia to Europe significantly better than a null model of cultural diffusion. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Palaeogenetic evidence supports a dual model of Neolithic spreading into Europe. (blogspot.com)
  • We propose here a dual model of Neolithic spread: acculturation in Central Europe and demic diffusion in southern Europe. (blogspot.com)
  • Despite the fact that Neolithic expansion had the same effect in Northern Africa as in Europe, the Straits of Gibraltar acted as a barrier between the two continents, limiting gene flow between North-western Africa and Western Europe through the Iberian Peninsula (Comas et al. (allempires.com)
  • Along with ceramics production, sedentism, and herding, agriculture is a major component of the Neolithic as it is defined in Europe. (oxfordre.com)
  • Therefore, the agricultural system of the first Neolithic societies and the dispersal of exogenous cultivated plants to Europe are the subject of many scientific studies. (oxfordre.com)
  • The samples will be studied in terms of ancient DNA and isotopes, to obtain further clues about the dispersal of domestic animals from the Near East to Europe. (metu.edu.tr)
  • Moreover, the results highlight the utility of craniometric data for assessing patterns of past population dispersal and gene flow. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The Neolithic Revolution greatly narrowed the diversity of foods available, resulting in a downturn in the quality of human nutrition compared with that obtained previously from foraging, but because food production became more efficient, it released humans to invest their efforts in other activities and was thus "ultimately necessary to the rise of modern civilization by creating the foundation for the later process of industrialization and sustained economic growth. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Neolithic Era "[…] was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BCE […] in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4,500 and 2,000 BCE. (myindiamyglory.com)
  • The Pacific region is of major importance for addressing questions regarding human dispersals, interactions with archaic hominins and natural selection processes1. (bvsalud.org)
  • Bidirectional blade technology on naviform cores from northern Arabia: New evidence of Arabian-Levantine interactions in the Neolithic. (archaeopresspublishing.com)
  • Lazaridis was part of a multidisciplinary study that included archaeologists, anthropologists, and bioinformatics specialists, and is the first to analyse DNA data collected from Neolithic individuals across Mesopotamia (South-eastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, the Zagros mountains and Armenia. (natureasia.com)
  • Both landscapes contain significant evidence of Neolithic activity, but present contrasting contexts. (stir.ac.uk)
  • Largely because of the influence of linguistic studies, however, which have a shallow time depth, the attention of archaeologists and geneticists has usually been focused on the last 6,000 years--in particular, on a proposed Neolithic dispersal from China and Taiwan. (uea.ac.uk)
  • A recent database analysis of Neolithic Ireland illustrates the extreme western edge of Neolithic dispersal from western Asia. (blogspot.com)
  • Steppe-like' ancestry was barely found in BA Armenia and none of it in the few Anatolian samples of the BA too, but a fully steppe-like Caucasian population aleeady exited before the Neolithic? (eupedia.com)
  • This north-to-south coastal transport is in marked contrast to the present south-to-north dispersal pattern where smectite-rich Nile material is derived from distal sources and carried hundreds of kilometers to the Carmel margin. (haifa.ac.il)
  • and (3) future directions for southwest Asian Neolithic research in light of new discoveries on Cyprus. (ajaonline.org)
  • The data from Shillourokambos are referred to in most papers in the Neolithic Revolution volume, but much of what was presented in May 2001 at the "Le Néolithique de Chypre" conference was not published before Neolithic Revolution appeared in press and has only been fully assessed subsequently. (ajaonline.org)
  • The archaeology presented from later periods covers the rise of the Bugis kingdom, Chinese trade ceramics, and a range of site-based and regional topics from the Neolithic through to the arrival of Islam. (edu.au)
  • By 500,000 years ago, the house mouse had begun to diverge into discernible subspecies whose dispersals have been traced across the globe. (earth.com)
  • magnetosonic Neolithic waves from the sawtooth addition before and after the Toba Study. (mooreamusicpele.com)