Evolutionary Demography and the Population History of the European Early Neolithic

Shennan, Stephen

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“…The LBK, for example, reached its height between 7500 and 6900 BP (Whittle, 1996), roughly 900 years before C282Y is thought to have mutated (Raha‐Chowdhury and Gruen, 2000; Symonette and Adams, 2011). As mentioned in the Introduction, the expansion of farming stalled in continental Europe for at least 1,000 years before crossing the channel into Britain and Ireland (Shennan, 2009). Therefore, genetic drift by founder effect may have influenced the initial spread of the C282Y allele during the expansion of the Neolithic into the British Isles.…”

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“…The Neolithic first appears in Europe on the Island of Cyprus about 10,000 years ago (Pinhasi et al, 2005). Once the Neolithic reached the Hungarian Plains, by about 7,000 years ago, it rapidly moved throughout central Europe following the Danube River and its tributaries and settled on the rich loess soils ideal for farming (Jochim, 2000; Price, 2000, 2003; Price et al, 2001; Shennan, 2009, 2012; Bentley, 2013). The first farmers in Mainland Europe are associated with material remains known as the Linearbandkeramik Culture (LBK) whose temporal fingerprint is at its height between 7500 and 6900 BP (Whittle, 1996).…”

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“…The first farmers in Mainland Europe are associated with material remains known as the Linearbandkeramik Culture (LBK) whose temporal fingerprint is at its height between 7500 and 6900 BP (Whittle, 1996). The Neolithic stalled in Mainland Europe not reaching the British Isles until about 6200 BP where, within less than 400 years, the Neolithicization of Britain and Ireland was rapid and complete (Richards et al, 2003; Shennan, 2009; Cunliffe, 2013; Whitehouse et al, 2013; Cramp et al, 2014; Woodbridge et al, 2014). …”

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The evolutionary adaptation of the C282Y mutation to culture and climate during the European Neolithic

Heath

Axton

McCullough

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American J Phys Anthropol

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ObjectivesThe C282Y allele is the major cause of hemochromatosis as a result of excessive iron absorption. The mutation arose in continental Europe no earlier than 6,000 years ago, coinciding with the arrival of the Neolithic agricultural revolution. Here we hypothesize that this new Neolithic diet, which originated in the sunny warm and dry climates of the Middle East, was carried by migrating farmers into the chilly and damp environments of Europe where iron is a critical micronutrient for effective thermoregulation. We argue that the C282Y allele was an adaptation to this novel environment.Materials and MethodsTo address our hypothesis, we compiled C282Y allele frequencies, known Neolithic sites in Europe and climatic data on temperature and rainfall for statistical analysis.ResultsOur findings indicate that the geographic cline for C282Y frequency in Europe increases as average temperatures decrease below 16°C, a critical threshold for thermoregulation, with rainy days intensifying the trend.DiscussionThe results indicate that the deleterious C282Y allele, responsible for most cases of hemochromatosis, may have evolved as a selective advantage to culture and climate during the European Neolithic. Am J Phys Anthropol 160:86–101, 2016. © 2016 The Authors American Journal of Physical Anthropology Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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The evolutionary adaptation of the C282Y mutation to culture and climate during the European Neolithic

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“…Thus far in the study of human prehistory, BSPs have mostly been applied to large regional samples, often on continental scales (Atkinson et al 2008(Atkinson et al , 2009Fagundes et al 2008;Shennan 2009) or restricted to specific genetic lineages (e.g., mitochondrial DNA haplogroups; Soares et al 2011). However, the history of haplogroups cannot be disassociated from the dynamics of the populations from which they derive (Peng and Zhang 2011).…”

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Climate Change Influenced Female Population Sizes Through Time Across the Indonesian Archipelago

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Lying at the crossroads of Asia and the Pacific world, the Indonesian archipelago hosts one of the world's richest accumulations of cultural, linguistic, and genetic variation. While the role of human migration into and around the archipelago is now known in some detail, other aspects of Indonesia's complex history are less understood. Here, we focus on population size changes from the first settlement of Indonesia nearly 50 kya up to the historic era. We reconstructed the past effective population sizes of Indonesian women using mitochondrial DNA sequences from 2,104 individuals in 55 village communities on four islands spanning the Indonesian archipelago (Bali, Flores, Sumba, and Timor). We found little evidence for large fluctuations in effective population size. Most communities grew slowly during the late Pleistocene, peaked 15-20 kya, and subsequently declined slowly into the Holocene. This unexpected pattern may reflect population declines caused by the flooding of lowland hunter/gatherer habitat during sea-level rises following the last glacial maximum. Keywords Indonesia, Mitochondrial Dna, Bayesian Skyline PlotThis open access article is available in Human Biology: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol85/iss1/6 Abstract Lying at the crossroads of Asia and the Pacific world, the Indonesian archipelago hosts one of the world's richest accumulations of cultural, linguistic, and genetic variation. While the role of human migration into and around the archipelago is now known in some detail, other aspects of Indonesia's complex history are less understood. Here, we focus on population size changes from the first settlement of Indonesia nearly 50 kya up to the historic era. We reconstructed the past effective population sizes of Indonesian women using mitochondrial DNA sequences from 2,104 individuals in 55 village communities on four islands spanning the Indonesian archipelago (Bali, Flores, Sumba, and Timor). We found little evidence for large fluctuations in effective population size. Most communities grew slowly during the late Pleistocene, peaked 15-20 kya, and subsequently declined slowly into the Holocene. This unexpected pattern may reflect population declines caused by the flooding of lowland hunter/gatherer habitat during sea-level rises following the last glacial maximum.The prehistory of Island Southeast Asia is made especially complex by its position as a waypoint between mainland Asia, Australia, and the Pacific world. The region's prehistory is dominated by population movements, beginning with its first settlement by modern humans approximately 50 kya and continuing to the Islamization of Indonesia during the historic period. Reflecting the rich cultural and linguistic diversity of Indonesia's inhabitants, these eras have also left their mark on the genetic diversity of the individuals who inhabit Indonesia today (Cox et al.

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“…For the time being then its lifelike character and the compactness as a means of explanation make both hereditary and clan models probable and it is for this reason that this model is favoured by some. 30 With reference to the spread of neolithic culture a complex explanation has emerged, in which the migration, which followed the successful settlement of one particular area resulted from a combination of a significant increase in the population, the preference for cattle as the domestic animal of choice and the need for ever greater grazing areas that accompanied it. It is for this reason that one needs to stress the importance of animal husbandry in connection with neolithization, both here in the spread of early and middle neolithic cultures within the Carpathian Basin and elsewhere in the more westerly lying areas of the LBK.…”

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The Füzesabony-Gubakút Settlement Development Model of the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture in the Light of the Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Hejőpapi-Szeméttelep (2008-2011) and Bükkábrány-Bánya VII -Vasúti Dűlő (2009-2011)

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2017

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The füzesabony-gubakút settlement development model of the alföld linear pottery culture in the light of the recent archaeological discoveries at hejőpapi-szeméttelep (2008-2011) and bükkábrány-bánya vii -vasúti dűlő (2009-2011) AbstractThanks to the extensive excavations that have been going on since the mid 1990s, archaeological research has managed to gain a greater insight into the settlement history of the ALPC. The large linear settlements and neatly arranged house-pitgrave ensembles offered an excellent opportunity to examine the relative and absolute chronology of the settlements and to gain an understanding of the settlements' internal development mechanism. The ALPC settlement development model on micro, mezo and macro scales was based on our key site of Füzesabony-Gubakút and its microregion in the southern Heves area. The most recent excavation results from Hejőpapi-Szeméttelep and Bükkábrány-Bánya VII -Vasúti dűlő in the Borsod area should be considered excellent test data for our model, as these sites were excavated in almost their entirety. As the processing of the finds from these excavations is still to come, the test in question is only really relevant for the structure of the settlement. Even so it is possible to draw serious conclusions from the data we already have.Keywords: excavation, chronology, carpathian basin, neolithic settlements, körös culture Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological SciencesResearch ArticleOpen AccessThe füzesabony-gubakút settlement development model of the alföld linear pottery culture in the light of the recent archaeological discoveries at hejőpapi-szeméttelep (2008-2011) and bükkábrány-bánya vii -vasúti dűlő (2009-2011)

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Evolutionary Demography and the Population History of the European Early Neolithic

Cited by 66 publications

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The evolutionary adaptation of the C282Y mutation to culture and climate during the European Neolithic

The evolutionary adaptation of the C282Y mutation to culture and climate during the European Neolithic

Climate Change Influenced Female Population Sizes Through Time Across the Indonesian Archipelago

The Füzesabony-Gubakút Settlement Development Model of the Alföld Linear Pottery Culture in the Light of the Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Hejőpapi-Szeméttelep (2008-2011) and Bükkábrány-Bánya VII -Vasúti Dűlő (2009-2011)

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