Ancient DNA and the European Neolithic : relations and descent / edited by Alasdair Whittle, Joshua Pollard, and Susan Greaney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whittle, A. W. R., editor.

Pollard, Joshua, editor.

Greaney, Susan, editor.

Series:

Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers.

Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, [2023]

Summary:

The current paradigm-changing ancient DNA revolution is offering unparalleled insights into central problems within archaeology relating to the movement of populations and individuals, patterns of descent, relationships and aspects of identity - at many scales and of many different kinds. The impact of recent ancient DNA results can be seen particularly clearly in studies of the European Neolithic, the subject of contributions presented in this volume. We now have new evidence for the movement and mixture of people at the start of the Neolithic, as farming spread from the east, and at its end, when the first metals as well as novel styles of pottery and burial practices arrived in the Chalcolithic. In addition, there has been a wealth of new data to inform complex questions of identities and relationships. The terms of archaeological debate for this period have been permanently altered, leaving us with many issues. This volume stems from the online day conference of the Neolithic Studies Group held in November 2021, which aimed to bring geneticists and archaeologists together in the same forum, and to enable critical but constructive inter-disciplinary debate about key themes arising from the application of advanced ancient DNA analysis to the study of the European Neolithic. The resulting papers gathered here are by both geneticists and archaeologists. Individually, they form a series of significant, up-to-date, period and regional syntheses of various manifestations of the Neolithic across the Near East and Europe, including particularly Britain and Ireland. Together, they offer wide-ranging reflections on the progress of ancient DNA studies, and on their future reach and character.

Contents:

Cover

Foreword

Contents

List of contributors

Chapter 1 - Introduction: questions of descent, relationships and identity

Chapter 2 - Living with archaeogenetics: three decades on

Chapter 3 - Five challenges for an integrated archaeogenetic paradigm

Chapter 4 - Ancient genomics methodology and genetic insularity in Neolithic Europe

Chapter 5 - Reconstructing the genealogical relationships of hunter-gatherers and farmers

Chapter 6 - Ancient DNA of Near Eastern populations: the knowns and the unknowns

Chapter 7 - Farmer-forager interactions in the Iron Gates: new insights and new dilemmas

Chapter 8 - A glance at early Neolithic south-east and central Europe - as reflected by archaeological and archaeogenetic data

Chapter 9 - Ancestry and identity in the Balkans and the Carpathian basin between the 5th and 3rd millennia cal BC

Chapter 10 - The genetics of the inhabitants of Neolithic Britain: a review

Chapter 11 - Islands apart? Genomic perspectives on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Ireland

Chapter 12 - Ancient DNA and modelling the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain and Ireland

Chapter 13 - Looking back, looking forward - humanity beyond biology.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781789259124

1789259126

9781789259117

1789259118

OCLC:

1492948655