LBK in Documenta Praehistorica


Initially this post was intended only to contain
information about an article by Detlef Gronenborn,
but I changed my mind to links to four interesting
articles with abstracts from Documenta Praehistorica.
http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/index.html

Because the documents are completely copy-
protected and the quality is not good enough for
a different method, I only give the abstracts as
provided on the site.
There is much more interesting to find in DP,
speciaI for prd even about Japan.
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Detlef Gronenborn (2003)
"Migration, aculturation and cultural change in
western temperate Eurasia, 6500-500 cal BP"
Documenta Praehistorica XXX
(Neolithic studies 10):79-91
http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/pdf30/30gronenborn.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/hn47o [13pp, 2.1Mb]

After the introduction of the pottery tradition
of La Hoguette and contemporaneous
research on Earliest LBK about 10 to 15
years ago, research onthe spread of
farming in Central Europe had somewhat
stagnated; there were hardly any major
advances in factual knowledge, nor could
theoretical models be refined. In the last
few years, however, an abundance of new
data has appeared, partly deriving from
botanical and anthropological analyses.
Furthermore, newly available results from
excavations in European Russia widenour
understanding of the manifold and complex
changes occurring during the latter 7th and
6th millennium cal BC.
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Martin Richards (2003)
"The Neolithic transition in Europe: archaeological
models and genetic evidence"
Documenta Praehistorica XXX (Neolithic studies 10):159-167 http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/pdf30/30richards.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/kq8ab [9pp, 148Kb]

The major pattern in the European gene pool
is a southeast-northwest frequency gradient
of classic genetic markers such as blood
groups, which population geneticists initially
attributed to the demographic impact of
Neolithic farmers dispersing from the Near
East. Molecular genetics has enriched this
picture, with analyses of mitochondrial DNA
and the Y chromosome allowing a more
detailed exploration of alternative models for
the spread of the Neolithic into Europe. This
paper considers a range of possible models
in the light of the detailed information now
emerging from genetic studies.
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Marek Zvelebil (2001)
"The agricultural transition and the origins of
Neolithic society in Europe"
Documenta Praehistorica XXVIII, 2001
(Neolithic studies 8):1-26 http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/pdf28/28zvelebil.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/gjlkv [26pp, 2.6Mb]

The origin of Neolithic societies and the
agricultural transition have been a subject of
concentrated attention and a subject of
debate and controversy among archaeologist,
geneticists and linguists. In my contribution
I review and evaluate different archaeological
interpretations of the transition to farming.
I will also discuss the archaeogenetic
evidence and its integration with archaeological
data.
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Peter Bogucki (2001)
"Recent research on early farming in central Europe"
Documenta Praehistorica XXVIII, 2001
(Neolithic studies 8)85-97 http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/pdf28/28bogucki.pdf
http://tinyurl.com/f57vh [13pp, 1.6Mb]

Farming communities were established in
many parts of central Europe Between
approximately 5600 and 4500 BC. Although
these communities have been studied for
over a century, much more remains to be
learned about them. This article will provide
an overview of the history of this research,
some important recent discoveries, and a
sense of the ongoing debate about the
origins of these agricultural communities.
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