Human mobility and the prehistoric spread of farming: isotope evidence from human skeletons

Human mobility and the prehistoric spread of farming: isotope evidence from human skeletons

For over a century, archaeologists, linguists and, more recently, geneticists have debated whether the earliest farmers in Europe and elsewhere were migrants to new regions, whether indigenous hunter-gatherers adopted farming, or whether both processes combined as the two groups intermarried. Now an...

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Main Author: Alex Bentley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UCL Press 2004-08-01
Series:Archaeology International
Online Access:http://www.ai-journal.com/articles/94
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spelling doaj-ae4f877e40744eddbeeb13c9ef7a53282021-02-02T03:17:35ZengUCL PressArchaeology International1463-17252048-41942004-08-018293210.5334/ai.080994Human mobility and the prehistoric spread of farming: isotope evidence from human skeletonsAlex Bentley0UCL Institute of ArchaeologyFor over a century, archaeologists, linguists and, more recently, geneticists have debated whether the earliest farmers in Europe and elsewhere were migrants to new regions, whether indigenous hunter-gatherers adopted farming, or whether both processes combined as the two groups intermarried. Now analysis of isotopes in archaeologically recovered skeletons is providing new evidence about the mobility of some of the earliest farmers in central Europe and Southeast Asia.http://www.ai-journal.com/articles/94
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title_short Human mobility and the prehistoric spread of farming: isotope evidence from human skeletons
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description For over a century, archaeologists, linguists and, more recently, geneticists have debated whether the earliest farmers in Europe and elsewhere were migrants to new regions, whether indigenous hunter-gatherers adopted farming, or whether both processes combined as the two groups intermarried. Now analysis of isotopes in archaeologically recovered skeletons is providing new evidence about the mobility of some of the earliest farmers in central Europe and Southeast Asia.
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