Prehistoric Migration in Europe: Strontium Isotope Analysis of Early Neolithic Skeletons

Bentley, R. Alexander; Price, T. Douglas; Lüning, Jens; Gronenborn, Detlef; Wahl, Joachim; Fullagar, Paul D.

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“…The uncertainty in the reconstruction for Proto-Indo-Hittite reflects disagreements in the literature about the earliest residence pattern of IE peoples (Clackson 2007) and suggests that, for this point in time, we can place limited confidence in inferences about this aspect of social organization drawn from cross-cultural data. The reconstruction of early IE virilocality concurs with recent archaeological evidence based on strontium isotope analyses of Neolithic burials in Germany, which indicate the migration of females in adulthood (Price et al 2001;Bentley et al 2002;Haak et al 2008; see discussion in Fortunato in press).…”

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Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies

Fortunato

Jordan

2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Accurate reconstruction of prehistoric social organization is important if we are to put together satisfactory multidisciplinary scenarios about, for example, the dispersal of human groups. Such considerations apply in the case of Indo-European and Austronesian, two large-scale language families that are thought to represent Neolithic expansions. Ancestral kinship patterns have mostly been inferred through reconstruction of kin terminologies in ancestral proto-languages using the linguistic comparative method, and through geographical or distributional arguments based on the comparative patterns of kin terms and ethnographic kinship ‘facts’. While these approaches are detailed and valuable, the processes through which conclusions have been drawn from the data fail to provide explicit criteria for systematic testing of alternative hypotheses. Here, we use language trees derived using phylogenetic tree-building techniques on Indo-European and Austronesian vocabulary data. With these trees, ethnographic data and Bayesian phylogenetic comparative methods, we statistically reconstruct past marital residence and infer rates of cultural change between different residence forms, showing Proto-Indo-European to be virilocal and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian uxorilocal. The instability of uxorilocality and the rare loss of virilocality once gained emerge as common features of both familie

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Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies

Fortunato

Jordan

2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…In the last ten years a number of LBK sites from south-western Germany have been the subject of isotopic research: Flomborn, Schwetzingen (Price et al, 2001), Talheim (Price et al, 2006), Stuttgart-Mühlhausen , Dillingen (Bentley et al, 2002), Vaihingen and Nieder-Mörlen (Nehlich et al, 2009) (Fig. 1).…”

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“Widely travelled people” at Herxheim? Sr isotopes as indicators of mobility

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Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History

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“…For example, strontium isotope analysis has identified migration in the North American Southwest (Price et al 1994;Ezzo et al 1997), in Bell Beaker and Linearbandkeramik populations in Central Europe (Grupe et al 1997;Bentley 2001;Price et al 2001;Bentley et al 2002), and in Teotihuacan barrios in Mesoamerica (Price et al 2000). Strontium isotope analysis has also been used to identify individuals buried in a mass grave as shipwrecked slaves (Cox and Sealy 1997), to reconstruct hominid habitat utilization (Sillen et al 1995(Sillen et al , 1998 and to determine the last domicile of Ötzi, the famed Iceman of the Alps (Hoogewerff et al 2001).…”

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The Use of Strontium Isotope Analysis to Investigate Tiwanaku Migration and Mortuary Ritual in Bolivia and Peru

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Strontium isotope analysis is applied in South America for the first time in order to investigate residential mobility and mortuary ritual from ad 500 to 1000. While Tiwanaku‐style artefacts are spread throughout Bolivia, southern Peru and northern Chile during this time, the nature of Tiwanaku influence in the region is much debated. Human skeletal remains from the site of Tiwanaku and the proposed Tiwanaku colony of Chen Chen have been analysed to test the hypothesis that Tiwanaku colonies, populated with inhabitants from Tiwanaku, existed in Peru. Strontium isotope analysis supports this hypothesis by demonstrating that non‐local individuals are present at both sites.

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Prehistoric Migration in Europe: Strontium Isotope Analysis of Early Neolithic Skeletons

Cited by 162 publications

References 11 publications

Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies

Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies

“Widely travelled people” at Herxheim? Sr isotopes as indicators of mobility

The Use of Strontium Isotope Analysis to Investigate Tiwanaku Migration and Mortuary Ritual in Bolivia and Peru

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