Mobility, contact, and exchange in the Baltic Sea basin 6000–2000 BC

Zvelebil, Marek

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2005.11.003

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“…Bocquet-Appel (2002) demonstrated a clear demographic transition, characterized by an increase in fertility rates, at the onset of the Neolithic. However, skeletal samples analyzed by Bocquet-Appel (2002) were lacking from the fi rst part of the Neolithic dispersal (Anatolia to southeastern Europe), and Bocquet-Appel (2002: 646) acknowledged the diffi culty in resolving a range of possible mechanisms that have been suggested by archaeologists, such as leapfrog colonization, elite predominance, infi ltration, and folk migration (e.g., Andel and Runnels 1995;Zvelebil 2006;Zvelebil and Lillie 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An increase in farming settlements, for example, could indicate the aggregation of indigenous groups converting to agriculture rather than intrinsic growth of colonizing populations. In particular, the availability model (Zvelebil 2006;Zvelebil and RowleyConwy 1984) for the adoption of agriculture by foragers, in contact along a frontier with farmers, predicts the logistic growth of Neolithic assemblages (as opposed to population in the wave of advance model). The model involves slow adoption during an initial availability phase followed by a rapid substitution phase and fi nally a slow consolidation phase [Zvelebil and Lillie 2000;but see Shennan (2009) (this issue) for an alternative interpretation of the evidence used to support this model].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As well as being relatively stable, forager-farmer frontiers were also permeable, with farmers and foragers often engaged in mutually benefi cial exchanges of goods, services, and people (e.g., Zvelebil 2006). Indeed, because hunter-gatherer groups were typically highly mobile and maintained social networks over large geographic areas, they were well placed to exploit the new opportunities that arose as farming communities appeared and actively sought trade in newly settled areas (Zvelebil 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, because hunter-gatherer groups were typically highly mobile and maintained social networks over large geographic areas, they were well placed to exploit the new opportunities that arose as farming communities appeared and actively sought trade in newly settled areas (Zvelebil 2006). For example, it appears that hunter-gatherers of the Philippines did not move into the tropical forest until they had established a symbiotic relationship with cultivators, trading wild produce with local farmers and overseas traders (Bailey et al 1989;Headland and Reid 1989;Junker 1996: 390).…”

Section: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Kinship, Marriage, and the Genetics of Past Human Dispersals

2009

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The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or "replaced" indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having intermarried with them, has been widely debated. Indigenous-colonist "admixture" is often represented in genetic models as a single parameter that, although parsimonious and simple, is incongruous with the sex-specifi c nature of mtDNA and Y-chromosome data. To help interpret genetic patterns, we can construct useful null hypotheses about the generalized migration history of females (mtDNA) as opposed to males (Y chromosome), which differ signifi cantly in almost every ethnographically known society. We seek to integrate ethnographic knowledge into models that incorporate new social parameters for predicting geographic patterns in mtDNA and Y-chromosome distributions. We provide an example of a model simulation for the spread of agriculture in which this individual-scale evidence is used to refine the parameters. Abstract The extent to which colonizing farmer populations have overwhelmed or "replaced" indigenous forager populations, as opposed to having intermarried with them, has been widely debated. Indigenous-colonist "admixture" is often represented in genetic models as a single parameter that, although parsimonious and simple, is incongruous with the sex-specifi c nature of mtDNA and Y-chromosome data. To help interpret genetic patterns, we can construct useful null hypotheses about the generalized migration history of females (mtDNA) as opposed to males (Y chromosome), which differ significantly in almost every ethnographically known society. We seek to integrate ethnographic knowledge into models that incorporate new social parameters for predicting geographic patterns in mtDNA and Y-chromosome distributions.We provide an example of a model simulation for the spread of agriculture in which this individual-scale evidence is used to refi ne the parameters.Understanding the processes through which populations grow and disperse is crucial to the study of human history and diversity and forms a major topic in anthropology and other related disciplines. A key problem is determining the extent to which colonizing populations (e.g., modern humans, Neolithic farmers, European colonists) overwhelmed or "replaced" native populations (e.g., Neanderthals, hunter-gatherers, non-European indigenous societies), as opposed to having integrated into or intermarried with them. These issues have been debated by numerous researchers in a variety of different historical and regional contexts, but no consensus has yet been reached about whether or not it is possible to discern any general patterns. Here, we aim to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of human migratory activity by integrating data drawn from several disciplines, namely, archaeology, ethnography, and human genetics. Our critique focuses on the highly infl uential wave of advance model of human dispersals, as fi rst developed by Ammerman and Cavalli-Sforza (1984). We argue that this model is not equipped to con...

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Section: Wave Of Advance Modelmentioning

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Section: Wave Of Advance Modelmentioning

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Section: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidencementioning

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Section: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidencementioning

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“…Bentley et al (2009) note that, in Europe, where agricultural communities with Near Eastern roots intruded into regions inhabited by indigenous Mesolithic foragers, this seems to be the pattern. However, "the Y-chromosome Near Eastern contribution" falls to "less than 20% in Central Europe and to 5-10% in the Baltic region and northern Europe (Zvelebil 2006)" (Bentley et al 2009: 171), suggesting a different pattern in the transmission of the Neolithic complex. [On the differences of Baltic and Finnish from other European populations with respect to Y-chromosome lineages, see also Roewer et al (2005), who attribute it to a pattern of patrilocal residence in which in-marrying women and their husbands lived with or near the husband's father, mitigating against the establishment of settler Y-chromosome lineages.]…”

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Kinship Matters: Structures of Alliance, Indigenous Foragers, and the Austronesian Diaspora

Turner

2013

Human Biology

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The study of kinship systems has direct relevance for the field of human genetics and the study of microevolution in human populations. Some types of postmarital residence rules-rules requiring a married couple to live with or near relatives of the husband or wife-will have consequences for the distribution of mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome lineages. Rules that proscribe or encourage marriage with close kin will also have consequences for allele frequency. A preference for marrying at a distance, both socially and geographically, creates alliances that can have survival value for individuals and groups in an environment of periodic or unpredictable scarcity. This article considers the nature of early contact between the indigenous foraging populations of the Philippines and Austronesian speaking settlers who began arriving ~4,500-4,000 BP. It argues that when the first Austronesians arrived they brought with them a kinship system based on symmetrical exchange between descent-based groups. It considers why such a system was gradually changed into the bilateral kinship systems that characterize the various peoples of the Philippines today, "negrito" and non-negrito alike. Abstract The study of kinship systems has direct relevance for the field of human genetics and the study of microevolution in human populations. Some types of postmarital residence rules-rules requiring a married couple to live with or near relatives of the husband or wife-will have consequences for the distribution of mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome lineages. Rules that proscribe or encourage marriage with close kin will also have consequences for allele frequency. A preference for marrying at a distance, both socially and geographically, creates alliances that can have survival value for individuals and groups in an environment of periodic or unpredictable scarcity. This article considers the nature of early contact between the indigenous foraging populations of the Philippines and Austronesian speaking settlers who began arriving ~4,500-4,000 BP. It argues that when the first Austronesians arrived they brought with them a kinship system based on symmetrical exchange between descent-based groups. It considers why such a system was gradually changed into the bilateral kinship systems that characterize the various peoples of the Philippines today, "negrito" and non-negrito alike.

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The Mesolithic‐Neolithic Transition in Eastern Europe: Integrating Stable Isotope Studies of Diet with Palaeopathology to Identify Subsistence Strategies and Economy

Lillie

Budd

2011

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

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Mobility, contact, and exchange in the Baltic Sea basin 6000–2000 BC

Cited by 65 publications

References 32 publications

Kinship, Marriage, and the Genetics of Past Human Dispersals

Kinship, Marriage, and the Genetics of Past Human Dispersals

Kinship Matters: Structures of Alliance, Indigenous Foragers, and the Austronesian Diaspora

The Mesolithic‐Neolithic Transition in Eastern Europe: Integrating Stable Isotope Studies of Diet with Palaeopathology to Identify Subsistence Strategies and Economy

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