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Document Details : Title: Neolithic Farmers from the Eastern Marmara Region on the Move Subtitle: Closing the Circle? Author(s): ROODENBERG, Jacob Journal: Anatolica Volume: 42 Date: 2016 Pages: 1-10 DOI: 10.2143/ANA.42.0.3178197 Abstract : A motive for writing this article was a recent DNA study revealing close genetic similarities between individuals from neolithic Menteşe and Barcın in the eastern Marmara region of northwest Anatolia and early farmers in central Europe. On the basis of these data the author evaluates certain assumptions that hitherto have accompanied the debate on the neolithisation of Europe, and proposes a model that explains how Anatolian agriculturists in a time span of one millennium may have migrated into the heartland of the continent. Confirmation of the author’s initial postulate that northwest Anatolia was a plausible passage way for the spread of early food production into the continent is a significant conclusion. |
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