Archaeological Evidence on the Westward Expansion of Farming Communities from Eastern Anatolia to the Aegean and the Balkans

2011/10/01 by Mehmet Özdoğan · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Marine and environmental studies #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Peninsula #Balkan peninsula #Geography #Ancient history #Archaeology #Plateau (mathematics) #History #Ecology

paper · doi:10.1086/658895

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Abstract

The beginnings of the Neolithic way of life in Europe and the role played by the Anatolian Peninsula in this process are much-debated issues that involve a number of distinct topics. In this debate, it should not be overlooked that distinct from Europe, at least a portion of the Anatolian plateau had been part of the “Neolithic world” for at least 4,000 years before the appearance of the earliest claimed Neolithic culture in Europe. Accordingly, in viewing the interaction between southeastern Europe and the Aegean with the Anatolian Peninsula, the core area of primary Neolithization has to be considered.

Citations

• Earliest date for milk use in the Near East and southeastern Europe linked to cattle herding

Cited by

• Initial stages of two Neolithisation models in the Lower Volga basin
• Anatolian hypothesis [wikipedia]

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• The Aegean in the Early 7th Millennium BC: Maritime Networks and Colonization
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• Archaeobotanical Evidence for the Spread of Farming in the Eastern Mediterranean
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• The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia