Strontium isotopes document greater human mobility at the start of the Balkan Neolithic
Strontium isotopes document greater human mobility at the start of the Balkan Neolithic
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1211474110
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发表时间：
2013-02-26
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Price, T. Douglas
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作者：
Boric, Dusan;Price, T. Douglas
关于农业和新石器时代生活方式如何在欧洲传播的问题，几十年来一直是考古学中激烈争论的话题。很长一段时间以来，两种模式主导了讨论：来自亚洲西南部的农耕群体的迁移，以及通过当地觅食种群的现有网络传播驯化动物和新思想。来自巴尔干半岛中北部多瑙河峡谷的新锶同位素数据显示，从公元前6200年到公元前6200年，有几波移民涌入这一地区这些结果进一步加强了饮食证据的基础上碳和氮同位素和越来越高的时间分辨率上获得的大样本的直接日期的个人。这个数据集提供了强有力的证据，证明在公元前6000年上半叶，农业社区完全吸收了觅食者之前，土著群体和早期农民之间存在着短暂的共存时期。
Questions about how farming and the Neolithic way of life spread across Europe-have been hotly debated topics in archaeology for decades. For a very long time, two models have dominated the discussion: migrations of farming groups from southwestern Asia versus diffusion of domesticates and new ideas through the existing networks of local forager populations. New strontium isotope data from the Danube Gorges in the north-central Balkans, an area characterized by a rich burial record spanning the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, show a significant increase in nonlocal individuals from similar to 6200 calibrated B.C., with several waves of migrants into this region. These results are further enhanced by dietary evidence based on carbon and nitrogen isotopes and an increasingly high chronological resolution obtained on a large sample of directly dated individuals. This dataset provides robust evidence for a brief period of coexistence between indigenous groups and early farmers before farming communities absorbed the foragers completely in the first half of the sixth millennium B.C.