Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers

M Rivollat, C Jeong, S Schiffels, İ Küçükkalıpçı… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Starting from 12,000 years ago in the Middle East, the Neolithic lifestyle spread across
Europe via separate continental and Mediterranean routes. Genomes from early European …

[HTML][HTML] Radiocarbon dated trends and central Mediterranean prehistory

EW Parkinson, TR McLaughlin, C Esposito… - Journal of world …, 2021 - Springer
This paper reviews the evidence for long term trends in anthropogenic activity and
population dynamics across the Holocene in the central Mediterranean and the chronology …

[HTML][HTML] Early Neolithic (ca. 5850-4500 cal BC) agricultural diffusion in the Western Mediterranean: An update of archaeobotanical data in SW France

L Bouby, P Marinval, F Durand, I Figueiral, F Briois… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Farming economy was first introduced to the coastal areas of Southern France by Impressa
groups (ca. 5850–5650 cal BC), originating from Italy, and subsequently spread to the …

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

LAF Frantz, J Haile, AT Lin, A Scheu… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by∼ 10,500 y before
the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs …

Tracking the transition to agriculture in Southern Europe through ancient DNA analysis of dental calculus

C Ottoni, D Borić, O Cheronet… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Archaeological dental calculus, or mineralized plaque, is a key tool to track the evolution of
oral microbiota across time in response to processes that impacted our culture and biology …

The spatiotemporal spread of human migrations during the European Holocene

F Racimo, J Woodbridge, RM Fyfe… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The European continent was subject to two major migrations of peoples during the
Holocene: the northwestward movement of Anatolian farmer populations during the …

The Neolithic transition in the western Mediterranean: A complex and non-linear diffusion process—the radiocarbon record revisited

C Manen, T Perrin, J Guilaine, L Bouby, S Bréhard… - …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The Neolithic transition is a particularly favorable field of research for the study of the
emergence and evolution of cultures and cultural phenomena. In this framework, high …

The times of their lives: Hunting history in the archaeology of Neolithic Europe

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[HTML][HTML] Migration, adaptation, innovation: The spread of Neolithic harvesting technologies in the Mediterranean

N Mazzucco, JJ Ibáñez, G Capuzzo, B Gassin… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
This article explores the changes that occurred in harvesting technology during the dispersal
of the Neolithic in the Mediterranean basin. It does so through technological and use-wear …

A Neolithic without dairy? Chemical evidence from the content of ceramics from the Pendimoun rock-shelter (Castellar, France, 5750–5150 BCE)

L Drieu, A Lucquin, L Cassard, S Sorin… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The early phases of Neolithic expansion in the Central and Western Mediterranean are
relatively poorly understood with regards to the diversity in the subsistence economy and the …