Early seventh-millennium AMS dates from domestic seeds in the Initial Neolithic at Franchthi Cave (Argolid, Greece)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3374825 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Perlès (Préhistoire et Technologie), Anita Quiles (0000-0002-2933-4472, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Helene Valladas (0000-0002-1858-0782, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 338 |
| Pages | 1001-1015 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00049826 |
| OpenAlex | W2149120554 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 30 |
When, and by what route, did farming first reach Europe? A terrestrial model might envisage a gradual advance around the northern fringes of the Aegean, reaching Thrace and Macedonia before continuing southwards to Thessaly and the Peloponnese. New dates from Franchthi Cave in southern Greece, reported here, cast doubt on such a model, indicating that cereal cultivation, involving newly introduced crop species, began during the first half of the seventh millennium BC. This is earlier than in northern Greece and several centuries earlier than in Bulgaria, and suggests that farming spread to south-eastern Europe by a number of different routes, including potentially a maritime, island-hopping connection across the Aegean Sea. The results also illustrate the continuing importance of key sites such as Franchthi to our understanding of the European Neolithic transition, and the additional insights that can emerge from the application of new dating projects to these sites
Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Cave · Geography · Period (music) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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Early ceramic styles and technologies in the Aegean and the Balkans
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Food and ornaments
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Mending Fragments
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Quaternary International
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Tempi of Change
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The role of waterways in the spread of the Neolithic
A Short History of Archaeological Sieving at Franchthi Cave, Greece
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Depending on 14 C Data
Development of the Radiocarbon Calibration Program
Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates
Radiocarbon Dates From the Oxford Ams System
Measuring the Rate of Spread of Early Farming in Europe
The lowest levels at Dikili Tash, northern Greece
Neolithic transition in Europe
Radiocarbon Dating and the Spread of Farming Economy
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |