Radiocarbon evidence indicates that migrants introduced farming to Britain

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 866-870

  Collard, Mark ^a,b   Edinborough, Kevan ^a,b   Shennan, Stephen ^b   Thomas, Mark G ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Demography; Neolithic; Radiocarbon dates; Transition to farming

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; FARMING SYSTEM; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77949541164     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.11.016     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Ammerman A.J., Cavalli-Sforza L.L. Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe 1984, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
2. Binford L.R. Constructing Frames of Reference: An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Hunter-Gatherer and Environmental Data Sets 2001, University of California Press, Berkeley.
3. Bocquet-Appel J.-P. Paleoanthropological traces of Neolithic demographic transition. Current Anthropology 2002, 43:638-650.
4. Bocquet-Appel J.-P. Explaining the Neolithic demographic transition. The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences 2008, 35-56. Springer, New York. J.-P. Bocquet-Appel, O. Bar-Yosef (Eds.).
5. Bocquet-Appel J.-P., Naji S. Testing the hypothesis of a worldwide Neolithic demographic transition. Corroboration from American cemeteries. Current Anthropology 2006, 47:341-365.
6. Bonsall C., Macklin M., Anderson D.E., Payton R.W. Climate change and the adoption of agriculture in north-west Europe. European Journal of Archaeology 2002, 5:9-23.
7. Brown A. Dating the onset of cereal cultivation in Britain and Ireland: the evidence from charred cereal grains. Antiquity 2007, 81:1042-1052.
8. Buchanan, B., Collard, M., Edinborough, K., 2008. Paleoindian demography and the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105, 11651-11654.
9. Chikhi, L., Destro-Bisol, G., Bertorelle, G., Pascali, V., Barbujani, G., 1998. Clines of nuclear DNA Markers suggest a largely Neolithic ancestry of the European gene pool. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95, 9053-9058.
10. Chikhi, L., Nichols, R.A., Barbujani, G., Beaumont, M.A., 2002. Y genetic data support the Neolithic demic diffusion model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99, 11008-11013.
11. Childe V.G. Man Makes Himself 1936, Watts, London.
12. Collard, M., Buchanan, B., Edinborough, K., 2008. Reply to Anderson et al., Jones, Kennett and West, Culleton, and Kennett, et al.: Further evidence against the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105, E112-E114.
13. Currat, M., Excoffier, L., 2005. The effect of the Neolithic expansion on European molecular diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Scociety B-Biological Sciences 272, 679-688.
14. Erlandson J.M., Torben C.R., Kennett D.J., Walker P.L. Dates, demography, and disease: cultural contacts and possible evidence for Old World epidemics among the Island Chumash. Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 2001, 37:11-26.
15. Gamble C.S., Davies W., Pettitt P., Richards M. Climate change and evolving human diversity in Europe during the last glacial. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 2004, 359:243-254.
16. Gamble C., Davies W., Pettitt P., Hazelwood L., Richards M. The archaeological and genetic foundations of the European population during the Late Glacial: implications for 'agricultural thinking'. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2005, 15:193-223.
17. Gkiasta M., Russell T., Shennan S.J., Steele J. Neolithic transition in Europe: the radiocarbon record revisited. Antiquity 2003, 77:45-62.
18. Jones G., Rowley-Conwy P. On the importance of cereal cultivation in the British Neolithic. The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants in Southwest Asia and Europe 2007, 391-419. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek. S. Colledge, J. Conolly (Eds.).
19. Milner N., Craig O.E., Bailey G.N., Pedersen K., Andersen S.H. Something fishy in the Neolithic? A re-evaluation of stable isotope analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic coastal populations. Antiquity 2004, 78:9-22.
20. Mithen, S., Pirie, A., Smith, S., Wicks, K., 2007. The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Scotland: a review and new evidence from Tiree. Proceedings of the British Academy 144, 511-541.
21. Niekus M.J.L.Th Trapeze shaped flint tips as proxy data for occupation during the Late Mesolithic and the Early to Middle Neolithic in the northern part of the Netherlands. Journal of Archaeological Science 2009, 36:236-247.
22. Piggott S. Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles 1954, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
23. Reimer P.J., Baillie M.G.L., Bard E., Bayliss A., Beck J.W., Bertrand C., Blackwell P.G., Buck C.E., Burr G., Cutler K.B., Damon P.E., Edwards R.L., Fairbanks R.G., Friedrich M., Guilderson T.P., Hughen K.A., Kromer B., McCormac F.G., Manning S., Bronk Ramsey C., Reimer R.W., Remmele S., Southon J.R., Stuiver M., Talamo S., Taylor F.W., van der Plicht J., Weyhenmeyer C.E. IntCal 04 calibration curve. Radiocarbon 2004, 46:1029-1058.
24. Richards M.P., Schulting R.J. Against the grain? Response to Milner et al. 2004. Antiquity 2006, 80:444-456.
25. Richards M., Macaulay V., Hickey E., Vega E., Sykes B., Guida V., Rengo C., Sellitto D., Cruciani F., Kivisild T., Villems R., Thomas M., Rychkov S., Rychkov O., Rychkov Y., Gölge M., Dimitrov D., Hill E., Bradley D., Romano V., Calì F., Vona G., Demaine A., Papiha S., Triantaphyllidis C., Stefanescu G., Hatina J., Belledi M., Di Rienzo A., Novelletto A., Oppenheim A., Nørby S., Al-Zaheri N., Santachiara-Benerecetti S., Scozzari R., Torroni A., Bandelt H.-J. Tracing european founder lineages in the near eastern mtDNA pool. American Journal of Human Genetics 2000, 67:1251-1276.
26. Richards M.P., Schulting R.J., Hedges R.E.M. Sharp shift in diet at onset of Neolithic. Nature 2003, 425:366.
27. Rowley-Conwy P. How the West was lost. Current Anthropology 2004, 45:S83-113.
28. Schulting R.J., Richards M.P. The wet, the wild and the domesticated: the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition on the west coast of Scotland. European Journal of Archaeology 2002, 5:147-189.
29. Shennan S, J., Edinborough K. Prehistoric population history: from the Late Glacial to the Late Neolithic in Central and Northern Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science 2007, 34:1339-1345.
30. Sheridan A. Achnacreebeag and its French connections: Vive the 'Auld Alliance'. The Prehistory and Early History of Atlantic Europe 2000, 1-15. Archaeopress, Oxford. J.C. Henderson (Ed.).
31. Sheridan A. French connections I: spreading the marmites thinly. Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain 2003, 3-17. Oxbow, Oxford. I. Armit, E. Murphy, E. Nelis, D. Simpson (Eds.).
32. Sheridan A. Neolithic connections along and across the Irish Sea. The Neolithic of the Irish Sea 2004, 9-21. Oxbow, Oxford. V. Cummings, C. Fowler (Eds.).
33. Sheridan, A., 2007. From Picardie to Pickering and Pencraig Hill? New information on the 'Carinated Bowl Neolithic' in northern Britain. Proceedings of the British Academy 144, 441-492.
34. 14C Age calibration program. Radiocarbon 1993, 35:215-230.
35. Thomas J. Rethinking the Neolithic 1991, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
36. Thomas J. Understanding the Neolithic 1999, Routledge, London.
37. Thomas J. Thoughts on the 'repacked?. Neolithic revolution.' Antiquity 2003, 77:67-74.
38. Thomas J. Recent debates on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain and Ireland. Documeta Praehistorica XXXI 2004, 113-130.
39. Thomas, J., 2007. Mesolithic-Neolithic transitions in Britain: from essence to inhabitation. Proceedings of the British Academy 144, 423-439.
40. Tresset A. De la mer au bétail en domaine Atlantique: unité et diversité des processus d'apparition de l'élevage à la marge nord-ouest de l'Europe. Anthropozoologica 2002, 36:14-35.
41. Tresset A. French connections II: of cows and men. Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain 2003, 18-30. Oxbow, Oxford. I. Armit, E. Murphy, E. Nelis, D. Simpson (Eds.).
42. Tresset, A., Vigne, J.-D. 2007. Substitution of species, techniques and symbols at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Western Europe. Proceedings of the British Academy 144, 189-210.
43. Weninger B., Schulting R., Bradtmöller M., Clare L., Collard M., Edinborough K., Hilpert J., Jöris O., Niekus M., Rohling E.J., Wagner B. The catastrophic final flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide tsunami. Documenta Prehistorica XXXV 2008, 1-24.
44. Whittle, A., 2007a. The temporality of transformation: dating the early development of the southern British Neolithic. Proceedings of the British Academy 144, 377-398.
45. Whittle, A., 2007b. Going over: people and their times. Proceedings of the British Academy 144, 617-628.