The Peopling of the Baraba Forest-Steppe in the Neolithic: Cranial Evidence
| Autor: | T. A. Chikisheva, D. V. Pozdnyakov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cultural Studies
010506 paleontology Archeology education.field_of_study 060102 archaeology Population Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Chalcolithic 01 natural sciences Archaeology Preboreal Geography Period (geology) 0601 history and archaeology education Holocene Mesolithic 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Marine transgression |
| Zdroj: | Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia. 49:133-146 |
| ISSN: | 1563-0110 |
| DOI: | 10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.1.133-145 |
| Popis: | On the basis of statistical analysis of craniometric data relating to Mesolithic and Neolithic samples from northern Eurasia, we discuss the peopling of the Baraba forest-steppe in the Early Holocene. This region is represented by samples from Sopka-2/1 (early sixth millennium BC), Protoka (late fifth to early fourth millennia BC), Korchugan (early-mid sixth millennium BC), and Vengerovo-2A (late sixth millennium BC). The results of the principal component analysis are interpreted in the context of debates over the role of autochthonous traditions in the Neolithic. During the Preboreal period (10 ka BP), large parts of the Baraba forest-steppe were flooded by the transgression of lake systems during climatic warming. This may have caused depopulation, lasting for at least a millennium. The Early Holocene people of Baraba were an offshoot of Meso-Neolithic populations of the northwestern Russian Plain. On that basis, the Early Neolithic populations of Baraba were formed. Direct population continuity is traceable only through the Chalcolithic. Since the late sixth millennium BC, however, the local population had incorporated migrants from the Pit-Comb Ware area in the central Russian Plain and, indirectly (via the Neolithic Altai), from the Cis-Baikal area. |
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