The Archaeology of Population Dynamics

Authors

  • John C. Barrett Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2019.02

Keywords:

Neolithic, Migration, DNA, theory

Abstract

A critical evaluation of the recent interpretation of aDNA data that link the adoption of domesticated plants and animals across Europe with a migration of human populations from southwest Asia and the Aegean. These data have been used to question previous models that argued for the uptake of farming by indigenous hunter-gatherer populations.

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2019-12-28

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Barrett, J. C. . (2019) “The Archaeology of Population Dynamics”, Current Swedish Archaeology, 27(1), pp. 37–51. doi: 10.37718/CSA.2019.02.

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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2019)

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