The Palaeopopulationgenetics of Humans, Cattle and Dairying in Neolithic Europe

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 369-384

  Burger, Joachim ^a   Thomas, Mark G ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Neolithic' package of features permanent settlements, agriculture, pottery and animal husbandry; 'Neolithic' used chronologically for parallel hunter gatherer societies, culturally 'Mesolithic'; Ancient and modern DNA, archaeozoology and archaeology nutritional benefits of dairying, processing milk for yoghurt and cheese; Archaeogenetics, palaeodemography, cranial and dental morphology in Palaeopopulation genetics of humans, cattle and dairying in Neolithic Europe; Chronological spread of the Neolithic; Coalescent theory, probabilities of lineages calculations of different demographic conditions; Common variant of lactase gene (LCT) 13 910; Demography of late hunter gatherers and early farmers archaeological evidence of cultural exchange, hunter gatherers and central Europe's first farmers; Humans, managing goat sheep, pig and cattle the Levant, Zagros mountains and Central Anatolia; Import and movement of domestic animals; T causative of LP in Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887542435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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