The origins of Europe's first farmers

The role of Hacılar and Western Anatolia, fifty years on

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ID10999983
AutoresMaxime Brami (0000-0001-5423-2761, University of Liverpool, autor correspondente), Volker Heyd (0000-0002-0889-6513)
Ano2011
Volume86
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPraehistorische Zeitschrift (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0079-4848 • E-ISSN: 1613-0804
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/pz.2011.011
OpenAlexW2017049631
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas24

Recent discoveries in Western Anatolia have shed new light on the origins of Europe’s first farmers. Fifty years ago, James Mellaart suggested that Early Neolithic communities in Greece and the Balkans shared a common ancestry in Western Anatolia at the site of Hacılar. Current excavations conducted along the Aegean coast of Turkey and in the broader Mar- mara region, halfway between Hacılar and Europe, confirm this link and provide a more complex and accurate picture of the spread of farming to Southeast Europe. The re-evaluation of the absolute and relative chronologies proposed in this paper identifies three chrono-geographical horizons (two definite, one tentative), each characterised by a different Neo- lithic ‘package’. Repeated migrations from the Central Anatolian plateau, and further on from the Levant, probably spread farming to Europe in the second half of the 7th millennium BC. The evidence for earlier Neolithic dispersals remains ambiguous

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