The Pleistocene colonization of northeastern Europe: a report on recent research

Pavlov, Pavel; Roebroeks, Wil; Svendsen, John Inge

doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.05.002

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“…1 However, the last glacial maximum (LGM) forced the contraction of the entire European populace to a number of refugia in the Iberian Peninsula, present day Ukraine and the northern Balkans. 2 The region was impacted again 12 200 -13 000 years ago, by an expansion from southwestern Europe during the final stage of the LGM, an event still imprinted in the mtDNA landscape of the area.…”

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Y-Chromosome distribution within the geo-linguistic landscape of northwestern Russia

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Populations of northeastern Europe and the Uralic mountain range are found in close geographic proximity, but they have been subject to different demographic histories. The current study attempts to better understand the genetic paternal relationships of ethnic groups residing in these regions. We have performed high-resolution haplotyping of 236 Y-chromosomes from populations in northwestern Russia and the Uralic mountains, and compared them to relevant previously published data. Haplotype variation and age estimation analyses using 15 Y-STR loci were conducted for samples within the N1b, N1c1 and R1a1 single-nucleotide polymorphism backgrounds. Our results suggest that although most genetic relationships throughout Eurasia are dependent on geographic proximity, members of the Uralic and Slavic linguistic families and subfamilies, yield significant correlations at both levels of comparison making it difficult to denote either linguistics or geographic proximity as the basis for their genetic substrata. Expansion times for haplogroup R1a1 date approximately to 18 000 YBP, and age estimates along with Network topology of populations found at opposite poles of its range (Eastern Europe and South Asia) indicate that two separate haplotypic foci exist within this haplogroup. Data based on haplogroup N1b challenge earlier findings and suggest that the mutation may have occurred in the Uralic range rather than in Siberia and much earlier than has been proposed (12.9±4.1 instead of 5.2±2.7 kya). In addition, age and variance estimates for haplogroup N1c1 suggest that populations from the western Urals may have been genetically influenced by a dispersal from northeastern Europe (eg, eastern Slavs) rather than the converse.

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“…Europe itself serves this purpose for the larger picture of expansion and contraction, situated as it is at the edge of the vast distributions of the Old World's Pleistocene hominins, of which more than a century of Quaternary research has only examined a very small part, as Robin Dennell keeps reminding us (Dennell, 2001(Dennell, , 2003(Dennell, , 2004. Within Europe many surprises still turn up in areas where little fieldwork has been done, for instance in the northernmost parts of northeastern Russia, where recent fieldwork has demonstrated a surprisingly early Upper Palaeolithic presence (Pavlov et al, 2004). But also in very wellstudied areas within Europe, striking new discoveries can be made, as shown by the recent work of Simon Parfitt and colleagues in East Anglia (Parfitt et al, 2005), where almost two centuries of intensive research failed to document hominin presence in the earlier parts of the Middle Pleistocene (Gamble, 1999).…”

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The human colonisation of Europe: where are we?

Roebroeks

2006

J Quaternary Science

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This paper focuses on the earlier parts of the human colonisation of Europe and its wider setting and addresses the two basic tasks of archaeologists working in this field: (1) to identify the spatio-temporal patterns of human presence and absence, i.e. getting the pattern 'right '; (2) to explain these patterns. Archaeologists have invested mostly in the first task, while the second one takes us to the field of biogeography. Study of biogeographical limits of hominins necessitates integration of many aspects of a species, e.g. diet, life history and social organisation, and the way environmental factors shape these. Palaeoanthropologists need to combine these with establishing data on the chronology of hominin presence, on palaeoenvironment and climatic oscillations, on emergence and disappearance of land bridges, and so on. They further have to acknowledge the fact that only very small parts of the former ranges of the species have been sampled 'adequately'. The paper explores some of the key issues at stake in dealing with the human colonisation of Europe.

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“…Data on the early Upper Paleolithic chronologies in central and eastern Europe are presented in a volume edited by Brantingham et al (2004). Svezhentsev and Popov (1993) and Abramova et al (2001) compiled chronologies of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the Russian Plain and adjacent Urals, with some additional information given recently by Pavlov et al (2004), Anikovich (2005), and Sinitsyn and Hoffecker (2006).…”

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Radiocarbon and the Old World Archaeology: Shaping a Chronological Framework

Kuzmin¹

2009

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The inception of the radiocarbon dating method in 1949 was immediately supported by many archaeologists. In the following 2 decades, many important archaeological sites in the Old World were dated, marking the beginning of building a reliable chronological framework for prehistoric and early historic cultural complexes worldwide. The author presents an observation of some of the most important results in establishing a chronology for Old World archaeology, based on 14C dating performed in the last 50 yr. An extensive bibliography should help scholars to get acquainted with early summaries on archaeological chronologies based on 14C data and their evaluation, as well as with some recent examples of the application of 14C dating in Old World archaeology.

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The Pleistocene colonization of northeastern Europe: a report on recent research

Cited by 45 publications

References 30 publications

Y-Chromosome distribution within the geo-linguistic landscape of northwestern Russia

Y-Chromosome distribution within the geo-linguistic landscape of northwestern Russia

The human colonisation of Europe: where are we?

Radiocarbon and the Old World Archaeology: Shaping a Chronological Framework

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