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The beginning of the Neolithic in the central Balkans: Knowns and unknowns
Documenta Praehistorica, 2024
Since 2020 a wealth of new data has been generated on the beginning of the Neolithic in the central Balkans. The picture that has emerged is broadly consistent with the Wave of Advance model, with the first farmers arriving in the region around 6250 BC and expanding gradually towards the north. In this paper, an updated review of the evidence and interpretations is presented, and potentially problematic or ambiguous aspects of the current interpretations of the Neolithic expansion in the Balkans are identified. Alternative hypotheses and means of their testing are also discussed.
Identifying the Earliest Neolithic Settlements in the Southeastern Balkans
2017
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The volume assembles contributions presented at two international conferences dedicated to recent studies on the Neolithic and Eneolithic of Southeast and Eastern Central Europe. Twenty years after the publication of the last comprehensive and broad scale conference on the historical concept, materiality and chronology of the Copper Age the International Conference “The Transition from the Neolithic to the Eneolithic in Central and South-Eastern Europe in the Light of Recent Research” took place in Timişoara, Romania on 10–12 November 2011, focussing on regional overviews over the transition from the Neolithic to the Eneolithic. The meeting brought together new data and new perspectives on the final periods of the Neolithic as well as the transition process to the Eneolithic. In 2013, the editors of the present volume organised the session A32 at the 19th meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) at Plzeň, Czech Republic on “Relative vs absolute chronology of the Neolithic of the Carpathian Basin and South Eastern Europe”. The thematic scope of the EAA session was focussed rather on approaches to adjust and revise traditional relative chronologies using new radiocarbon dates and calibration models (Bayesian statistics). Only a part of the EAA session contributions, however, was submitted. The editors therefore decided to integrate the Plzeň papers into the volume originally planned as the Timişoara proceedings. The present volume, thus, has developed a broader scope – both in terms of chronology (from Early Neolithic to Late Eneolithic) and geography (from Greece to Slovenia and Ukraine). It represents a cross section of ongoing research on the Neolithic and Eneolithic in Southeast and Eastern Central Europe.
The neolithisation of the Balkans: a review of the archaeobotanical evidence.
In P. Biagi and M. Spataro (eds) A Short Walk through the Balkans: The First Farmers of the Carpathian Basin and its Adjacent Regions. Quaderno 12, Atti della Societ per la Preistoria e Protostoria della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia. Trieste. pp. 25-38, 2007
The Neolithisation of the Balkans: a review of the archaeobotanical evidence. Minimal emphasis has hitherto been placed on the potential for analysing archaeobotanical datasets to explore the origin and spread of Neolithic farming; in this paper we present the results of such analyses which are based on the amalgamated records from c. 250 southwest Asian and European aceramic and Early Neolithic sites. We demonstrate the similarity of crop diversity on sites at the origins and at the focus of the earliest dispersal events and also the notable disparity in diversity between Early Neolithic sites in the different regions of the Balkans, once farming spread further westwards towards central Europe. We account for these variations in the 'crop package' in terms of both the routes of contact via which farming reached southeast Europe and also climatic factors that predetermined which species were better suited to cultivation according to the different regions.
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020
The new set of radiocarbon dates was used to explore the timing and tempo of the Neolithic expansion across the Central Balkans. Our results suggest that the first farmers arrived in this region around or few decades before 6200 cal BC. The observed spatio-temporal pattern based on the radiocarbon data suggests that the general direction of the expansion was along the south-north axis. The regression analysis (arrival time vs. distance from the origin of expansion in northern Greece) was used to estimate the Neolithic front speed. The results of this analysis suggest that there is a moderate fit of the linear model. Most of the front speed estimates based on the Central Balkan data are between 1 and 2.5 km/year (depending on the data subset and the statistical technique) which is mostly above the expected range (around 1 km/year) for the standard wave of advance model and the empirically determined continental averages. We conclude that the spatio-temporal pattern of the Neolithic expansion in the Central Balkans is broadly consistent with the predictions of the wave of advance model, with the possibility of sporadic leapfrog migration events. The speed of the expansion seems to have been faster in the Central Balkans compared to the continental average.