New insights into the Mesolithic use of Melos obsidian in Anatolia: a pXRF analysis from the Bozburun Peninsula (southwest Turkey)

Gemici, Hasan Can; Dirican, Murat; Atakuman, Çiğdem

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103296

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“…The incomers must have encountered Mesolithic communities on the Aegean islands and in mainland Greece, with whom they were likely already in contact given the presence of Greek (Melos) obsidian in Anatolia by the early 7th mil. BCE and possibly earlier (Gemici et al, 2022;Guilbeau et al, 2019;Horejs et al, 2015). These Mesolithic communities have not yet been genetically sampled and whether they were closer to the pre-Neolithic W Anatolian or the Balkan Mesolithic ("Balkan HG", i.e.…”

Section: The Mixed Origins Of W Anatolian Neolithic Villagesmentioning

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Out-of-Anatolia: cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean

Koptekin,

Aydoğan,

Karamurat

et al. 2024

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Western Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. Using 30 new palaeogenomes from Anatolia c.8000-6000 BCE we describe the early Holocene genetic landscape of Western Anatolia, which reveals population continuity since the late Upper Pleistocene. Our findings indicate that the Neolithisation of Western Anatolia in the 7thmillennium BCE was a multifaceted process, characterised by the assimilation of Neolithic practices by indigenous groups and the influx of populations from the east, their admixed descendants eventually laying the foundations of Neolithic Southeast Europe. Intriguingly, the observed diversity in material culture among Aegean Early Neolithic communities correlates with their geographical distances but not their genetic differences, signifying a decoupling between cultural developments and genetic admixture processes.

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Section: The Mixed Origins Of W Anatolian Neolithic Villagesmentioning

confidence: 99%