Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics

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by  Kaiser E., Burger J., Schier W. (eds.)

Population Dynamics
in Prehistory and Early History
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Berlin Studies of the Ancient World
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Volume 5
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Population Dynamics
in Prehistory and Early History
New Approaches Using
Stable Isotopes and Genetics
Edited by
Elke Kaiser
Joachim Burger
Wolfram Schier
De Gruyter
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ISBN 978-3-11-026629-0
e-ISBN 978-3-11-026630-6
ISSN 2191-5806
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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
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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
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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
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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
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