Neolithization Processes in the Levant

Goring-Morris, A. Nigel; Belfer‐Cohen, Anna

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“…We further identify directions and timings of expansions and subsequent isolations which correlate well with both archaeological and climate data2479101127343641. While aDNA studies have shown that genetic haplogroups in some populations elsewhere have been almost completely replaced over time19, the archaeological association of the expansions, and the reflection of those ancient expansions in the genetics of modern populations in the same region is notable.…”

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“…Post-glacial warming, and later, agriculture, allowed expansions of these populations within SW Asia8. Archaeological evidence shows post-LGP population expansions shifting from mobile foraging to a more sedentary lifestyle49 with permanent settlements, early cultivation of wild plants1011, stored goods, and emerging trade and exchange networks1213. The Fertile Crescent based “Neolithic Revolution” replaced most cultures across the region, spreading Indo-European languages from an Anatolian homeland14, both westward to Europe, northward to the steppes, and eastward to the Iranian plateau and beyond.…”

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Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia

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Haber

Kharrat

et al. 2017

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Archaeological, palaeontological and geological evidence shows that post-glacial warming released human populations from their various climate-bound refugia. Yet specific connections between these refugia and the timing and routes of post-glacial migrations that ultimately established modern patterns of genetic variation remain elusive. Here, we use Y-chromosome markers combined with autosomal data to reconstruct population expansions from regional refugia in Southwest Asia. Populations from three regions in particular possess distinctive autosomal genetic signatures indicative of likely refugia: one, in the north, centered around the eastern coast of the Black Sea, the second, with a more Levantine focus, and the third in the southern Arabian Peninsula. Modern populations from these three regions carry the widest diversity and may indeed represent the most likely descendants of the populations responsible for the Neolithic cultures of Southwest Asia. We reveal the distinct and datable expansion routes of populations from these three refugia throughout Southwest Asia and into Europe and North Africa and discuss the possible correlations of these migrations to various cultural and climatic events evident in the archaeological record of the past 15,000 years.

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Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia

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Haber

Kharrat

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“…Some developed at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, including Southwest Asia (60,64), South America (65,66), and North China (67), whereas others took place closer to 6,000-7,000 y ago, such as Yangtze China (68) and perhaps central America (cf. 69).…”

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Used planet: A global history

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Kaplan

Fuller

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Human use of land has transformed ecosystem pattern and process across most of the terrestrial biosphere, a global change often described as historically recent and potentially catastrophic for both humanity and the biosphere. Interdisciplinary paleoecological, archaeological, and historical studies challenge this view, indicating that land use has been extensive and sustained for millennia in some regions and that recent trends may represent as much a recovery as an acceleration. Here we synthesize recent scientific evidence and theory on the emergence, history, and future of land use as a process transforming the Earth System and use this to explain why relatively small human populations likely caused widespread and profound ecological changes more than 3,000 y ago, whereas the largest and wealthiest human populations in history are using less arable land per person every decade. Contrasting two spatially explicit global reconstructions of land-use history shows that reconstructions incorporating adaptive changes in land-use systems over time, including land-use intensification, offer a more spatially detailed and plausible assessment of our planet's history, with a biosphere and perhaps even climate long ago affected by humans. Although land-use processes are now shifting rapidly from historical patterns in both type and scale, integrative global land-use models that incorporate dynamic adaptations in human-environment relationships help to advance our understanding of both past and future land-use changes, including their sustainability and potential global effects.Anthropocene | environmental history | holocene | niche construction | agriculture

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“…The term "neolithization" is used to explain transformative landscape processes related to the transition of human societies from fully foraging to fully farming economies (Kuzmin and Orlova, 2000;Rispoli, 2007;Goring-Morris and Belfer-Cohen, 2011;Kim, 2014). Contrary to other places in the world, neolithization in northern Africa was not associated with the first use of ceramics and other forms of storage as so-called Aqualithic communities had developed pottery by 10,000 years ago (Stewart, 1989;McDonald, 2016).…”

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Humans as Agents in the Termination of the African Humid Period

Wright

2017

Front. Earth Sci.

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Neolithization Processes in the Levant

Cited by 114 publications

References 49 publications

Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia

Mapping Post-Glacial expansions: The Peopling of Southwest Asia

Used planet: A global history

Humans as Agents in the Termination of the African Humid Period

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