Human population dynamics in southeastern and Central Europe between the 5th and 3rd millennium BCE

Titel: Human population dynamics in southeastern and Central Europe between the 5th and 3rd millennium BCE / by Sandra Penske
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Veröffentlicht: Jena, [2024?]
Umfang: 315 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten ; 30 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch; Deutsch
Hochschulschrift: Dissertation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2024
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Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Penske, Sandra, 1988. Human population dynamics in southeastern and Central Europe between the 5th and 3rd millennium BCE. - Jena, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (316 Seiten)
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Tag der Verteidigung: 24.10.2024
Zusammenfassung: Archaeogenetic studies could show that cultural changes across Western Eurasia were often associated with genetic changes. These changes happened on a large-scale, population-wide level but also affected past societies in their social and cultural organisation. This thesis investigates significant genetic changes and therefore also human mobility and migration during the 5th millennium BCE in southeastern Europe and the North Pontic region, a time period and geographical area assisted with the exchange of ideas, innovations and dairy practices between farming populations from west of the Black Sea and pastoralist societies from the steppe zones north of the Caucasus. The results show that not only cultural interactions happened in the melting pot area of the northwestern Black Sea region but these exchanges were facilitated by human interaction visible in the genetic profile of individuals from this region. With the subsequent west-ward expansion of the so-called steppe-related ancestry, significant genetic changes are visible across Europe during the 3rd millennium BCE. The timing of the arrival of this type of genetic ancestry in the Central German settlement hub was not known until now. The results in this thesis date the first appearance to around 2800 BCE associated with the Corded Ware Complex (CWC) which is consistent with the archaeological record. With this earliest date for Central Germany, the crucial transition period from the Neolithic to the CWC in Central Germany is now better understood. Later during the Early Bronze Age in Central Germany, around 2000 BCE, a significant change in social organisation appeared in form of strong social hierarchies with few individuals of power being buried in princely burial mounds with highly valuable grave goods. The investigation of a fully excavated burial ground from this time however shows no such strong social hierarchies. The social organisation was mainly patrilocal and patrilineal with female exogamy