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Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History Unauthenticated Download Date | 2/16/16 8:01 PM Topoi Berlin Studies of the Ancient World Edited by Excellence Cluster Topoi Volume 5 De Gruyter II Unauthenticated Download Date | 2/16/16 8:01 PM Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History New Approaches Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics Edited by Elke Kaiser Joachim Burger Wolfram Schier De Gruyter Unauthenticated Download Date | 2/16/16 8:01 PM ISBN 978-3-11-026629-0 e-ISBN 978-3-11-026630-6 ISSN 2191-5806 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2012 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Typesetting: Dörlemann Satz GmbH & Co. KG, Lemförde Printing and binding: AZ Druck und Datentechnik GmbH, Berlin o Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com IV Unauthenticated Download Date | 2/16/16 8:01 PM Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX Genetics Mathias Currat Consequences of population expansions on European genetic diversity . . . . . 3 Pascale Gerbault, Michela Leonardi, Adam Powell, Christine Weber, Norbert Benecke, Joachim Burger, Mark G. Thomas Domestication and migrations: Using mitochondrial DNA to infer domestication processes of goats and horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Greger Larson Using pigs as a proxy to reconstruct patterns of human migration . . . . . . . 31 Ingrid Wiechmann Poor DNA preservation in bovine remains excavated at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe (Southeast Turkey): Brief communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Amelie Scheu, Christina Geörg, Anna Schulz, Joachim Burger, Norbert Benecke The arrival of domesticated animals in South-Eastern Europe as seen from ancient DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Lars Fehren-Schmitz Population dynamics, cultural evolution and climate change in pre-Columbian western South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Stable isotopes and genetics Malcolm C. Lillie, Inna Potekhina, Chelsea Budd, Alexey G. Nikitin Prehistoric populations of Ukraine: Migration at the later Mesolithic to Neolithic transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Vyacheslav I. Molodin, Alexander S. Pilipenko, Aida G. Romaschenko, Anton A. Zhuravlev, Rostislav O. Trapezov, Tatiana A. Chikisheva, Dmitriy V. Pozdnyakov Human migrations in the southern region of the West Siberian Plain during the Bronze Age: Archaeological, palaeogenetic and anthropological data . . . . . . 93 CONTENTS V Unauthenticated Download Date | 2/16/16 8:02 PM Christina Sofeso, Marina Vohberger, Annika Wisnowsky, Bernd Päffgen, Michaela Harbeck Verifying archaeological hypotheses: Investigations on origin and genealogical lineages of a privileged society in Upper Bavaria from Imperial Roman times (Erding, Kletthamer Feld) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Stable isotopes Marek Zvelebil, Malcolm C. Lillie, Janet Montgomery, Alena Lukes, Paul Pettitt, Mike P. Richards The emergence of the LBK: Migration, memory and meaning at the transition to agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Rouven Turck, B. Kober, J. Kontny, F. Haack, Andrea Zeeb-Lanz “Widely travelled people” in Herxheim? Sr-isotopes as indicators of mobility. . . . 149 Claudia Gerling, Volker Heyd, Alistair Pike, Eszter Bánffy, János Dani, Kitti Köhler, Gabriella Kulcsár, Elke Kaiser, Wolfram Schier Identifying kurgan graves in Eastern Hungary: A burial mound in the light of strontium and oxygen isotope analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Natalia Shishlina, Vyacheslav Sevastyanov, Robert E.M. Hedges Isotope ratio study of Bronze Age samples from the Eurasian Caspian Steppes . . . 177 Johanna Irrgeher, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Katrin Leutgeb, Christopher Weiss, Daniela Kern, Thomas Prohaska Migration and mobility in the latest Neolithic of the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria: Sr isotope analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Daniela Kern Migration and mobility in the latest Neolithic of the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria: Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Julia K. Koch, Katharina Kupke Life-course reconstruction for mobile individuals in an Early Bronze Age society in Central Europe: Concept of the project and first results for the cemetery of Singen (Germany) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Argyro Nafplioti Late Minoan IB destructions and cultural upheaval on Crete: A bioarchaeological perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Elisabeth Stephan, Corina Knipper, Kristine Schatz, T. Douglas Price, Ernst Hegner Strontium isotopes in faunal remains: Evidence of the strategies for land use at the Iron Age site Eberdingen-Hochdorf (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) . . . . . . 265 VI CONTENTS Unauthenticated Download Date | 2/16/16 8:02 PM Corina Knipper, Anne-France Maurer, Daniel Peters, Christian Meyer, Michael Brauns, Stephen G. Galer, Uta von Freeden, Bernd Schöne, Harald Meller, Kurt W. Alt Mobility in Thuringia or mobile Thuringians: A strontium isotope study from early medieval Central Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 T. Douglas Price, Karin Margarita Frei, Vera Tiesler, Hildur Gestsdóttir Isotopes and mobility: Case studies with large samples . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Gisela Grupe, Sabine Eickhoff, Anja Grothe, Bettina Jungklaus, Alexander Lutz Missing in action during the Thirty Years’ War: Provenance of soldiers from the Wittstock battlefield, October4, 1636. An investigation of stable strontium and oxygen isotopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Jason E. Laffoon, Menno L. P. Hoogland Migration and mobility in the circum-Caribbean: Integrating archaeology and isotopic analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 CONTENTS VII Unauthenticated Download Date | 2/16/16 8:02 PM VIII CONTENTS Unauthenticated Download Date | 2/16/16 8:02 PM Preface In March 2010, Berlin’s Freie Universität hosted an international conference on the topic “Migration in Prehistory and Early History: Stable Isotopes and Population Genetics– New Answers to Old Questions?”. Until well into the nineties, migration was not considered in the fields of ancient studies in Central and Western Europe to be a topic worthy of research. In contrast, in other countries migration began, even before the war, to be almost a standard model for explaining cultural change. In past decades, con- ventional methods have permitted scholars to achieve only a limited degree of progress in the question of how archaeological cultures and innovations spread over large areas. Even now, models of diffusion and migration are juxtaposed as opposites, though more recently convergence phenomena have also been discussed. Recent decades have seen the application of methods of analysis involving archaeometry and mol- ecular genetics. Most prominent are approaches using stable isotopes and palaeogenetics, but also computer simulation, all of which are providing new impulses within the discussion of (pre)historical population dynamics. As a result, the state of migration research has undergone rapid change. Thus, we decided to invite to Berlin groups whose research is focussed on migration in prehistoric and early historic times, to create an opportunity to exchange experiences and insights about methodological approaches, research results and prospects for future research. No chronological or geographical restric- tions were placed on the invitation, which made it possible to have scholars from widely diverse scien- tific disciplines comparatively present their approaches, findings and interpretations to an audience far broader than the circles of the individual disciplines. A total of 32 papers and 6 posters were presented, addressing specific historical questions concerning population dynamics and migration in the light of cutting edge bio-archaeological research. The confer- ence programme was divided into three larger thematic sections: 1) isotope analysis, 2) population gen- etics and 3) modelling and computer simulation. The same structure has been adopted for this volume. Over the course of the conference, one aspect that emerged clearly was that archaeologists, model- lers, population geneticists and analysts share a common interest in history, and above all the history of the human population (and their domesticated animals). The participants also learned, though, that de- spite all that they have in common in terms of ideas, by and large the limits of the capacity for mutual understanding have been reached. The high degree of specialization in the separate disciplines and the complexity of modern archaeological research have demolished the utopia of an untroubled transdisci- plinary approach– so much for the lessons from this conference. However, the farther the disciplines grow apart from one another in their quest for new insights, the more essential it becomes that rigorous and regular dialogues take place among them– this too was something upon which everyone at the con- ference could agree. The aim of this volume is to conduct that dialogue at a high level for the purpose of a reconstruction of (pre)historic population history. The large audience and the extraordinary quality both of the papers presented and of the sub- sequent discussion bore witness to the great interest in the field of (pre)historical migration research that currently exists. This ultimately led to the decision to publish in printed form as many of the papers presented as possible. In deciding upon the title of this volume,Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, the editors have attempted to do justice to the broad spectrum of research on mobility and migration presented within it. PREFACE IX Unauthenticated Download Date | 2/16/16 8:02 PM
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