scholarly journals Nitrogen isotope evidence for manuring of early Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture cereals from Stensborg, Sweden

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 575-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt J. Gron ◽  
Darren R. Gröcke ◽  
Mikael Larsson ◽  
Lasse Sørensen ◽  
Lars Larsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Isotope ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Isotope Evidence ◽  
Funnel Beaker Culture

scholarly journals Herbivore diets and the anthropogenic environment of early farming in southern Scandinavia

The Holocene ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt J Gron ◽  
Peter Rowley-Conwy
Keyword(s):  
Early Period ◽  
Bone Collagen ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Human Influence ◽  
Domestic Species ◽  
Southern Scandinavia ◽  
Early Farming ◽  
Dietary Variation ◽  
Funnel Beaker Culture ◽  
Feeding Environments

Farming practice in the first period of the southern Scandinavian Neolithic (Early Neolithic I, Funnel Beaker Culture, 3950–3500 cal. BC) is not well understood. Despite the presence of the first farmers and their domesticated plants and animals, little evidence of profound changes to the landscape such as widespread deforestation has emerged from this crucial early period. Bone collagen dietary stable isotope ratios of wild herbivores from southern Scandinavia are here analysed in order to determine the expected range of dietary variation across the landscape. Coupled with previously published isotope data, differences in dietary variation between wild and domestic species indicate strong human influence on the choice and creation of feeding environments for cattle. In context with palynological and zooarchaeological data, we demonstrate that a human-built agricultural environment was present from the outset of farming in the region, and such a pattern is consistent with the process by which expansion agriculture moves into previously unfarmed regions.

scholarly journals Strontium isotope evidence of early Funnel Beaker Culture movement of cattle

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 248-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt J. Gron ◽  
Janet Montgomery ◽  
Poul Otto Nielsen ◽  
Geoff M. Nowell ◽  
Joanne L. Peterkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strontium Isotope ◽  
Isotope Evidence ◽  
Funnel Beaker Culture

Nitrogen isotope evidence for an oligotrophic shallow ocean during the Cambrian Stage 4

2019 ◽  
Vol 257 ◽  
pp. 49-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Chang ◽  
Wenxuan Hu ◽  
Xiaolin Wang ◽  
Kang-Jun Huang ◽  
Aihua Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Isotope ◽  
Stage 4 ◽  
Isotope Evidence

Nitrogen isotope evidence for expanded ocean suboxia in the early Cenozoic

Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 364 (6438) ◽  
pp. 386-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma R. Kast ◽  
Daniel A. Stolper ◽  
Alexandra Auderset ◽  
John A. Higgins ◽  
Haojia Ren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Nitrogen Isotope ◽  
Tethys Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
Continental Shelves ◽  
Global Cooling ◽  
Isotope Evidence ◽  
Depth Water ◽  
The North Pacific ◽  
Early Cenozoic

The million-year variability of the marine nitrogen cycle is poorly understood. Before 57 million years (Ma) ago, the 15N/14N ratio (δ15N) of foraminifera shell-bound organic matter from three sediment cores was high, indicating expanded water column suboxia and denitrification. Between 57 and 50 Ma ago, δ15N declined by 13 to 16 per mil in the North Pacific and by 3 to 8 per mil in the Atlantic. The decline preceded global cooling and appears to have coincided with the early stages of the Asia-India collision. Warm, salty intermediate-depth water forming along the Tethys Sea margins may have caused the expanded suboxia, ending with the collision. From 50 to 35 Ma ago, δ15N was lower than modern values, suggesting widespread sedimentary denitrification on broad continental shelves. δ15N rose at 35 Ma ago, as ice sheets grew, sea level fell, and continental shelves narrowed.

scholarly journals The genomic ancestry of the Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture people and their relation to the broader Corded Ware horizon

2019 ◽  
Vol 286 (1912) ◽  
pp. 20191528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Malmström ◽  
Torsten Günther ◽  
Emma M. Svensson ◽  
Anna Juras ◽  
Magdalena Fraser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Published Data ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Funnel Beaker Culture ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Sea Area ◽  
Common Era

The Neolithic period is characterized by major cultural transformations and human migrations, with lasting effects across Europe. To understand the population dynamics in Neolithic Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea area, we investigate the genomes of individuals associated with the Battle Axe Culture (BAC), a Middle Neolithic complex in Scandinavia resembling the continental Corded Ware Culture (CWC). We sequenced 11 individuals (dated to 3330–1665 calibrated before common era (cal BCE)) from modern-day Sweden, Estonia, and Poland to 0.26–3.24× coverage. Three of the individuals were from CWC contexts and two from the central-Swedish BAC burial ‘Bergsgraven’. By analysing these genomes together with the previously published data, we show that the BAC represents a group different from other Neolithic populations in Scandinavia, revealing stratification among cultural groups. Similar to continental CWC, the BAC-associated individuals display ancestry from the Pontic–Caspian steppe herders, as well as smaller components originating from hunter–gatherers and Early Neolithic farmers. Thus, the steppe ancestry seen in these Scandinavian BAC individuals can be explained only by migration into Scandinavia. Furthermore, we highlight the reuse of megalithic tombs of the earlier Funnel Beaker Culture (FBC) by people related to BAC. The BAC groups likely mixed with resident middle Neolithic farmers (e.g. FBC) without substantial contributions from Neolithic foragers.

scholarly journals Stable Isotope Palaeodietary and Radiocarbon Evidence from the Early Neolithic Site of Zemunica, Dalmatia, Croatia

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Guiry ◽  
Ivor Karavanić ◽  
Rajna Šošić Klindžić ◽  
Sahra Talamo ◽  
Siniša Radović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Near East ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Neolithic Transition ◽  
Adriatic Coast ◽  
Isotope Evidence ◽  
Main Protein ◽  
Spread Of Agriculture

The Adriatic Sea and Balkan Peninsula were an important corridor for the spread of agriculture northwards and westwards from the Near East into Europe. Therefore, the pace and nature of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition along the Adriatic coastline has important implications for the movement of new peoples and/or ideas during one of the most eventful periods in European prehistory. We present new Early Neolithic radiocarbon and stable isotope evidence from humans and animals from the Zemunica cave site in Dalmatia, Croatia. The results show that these humans date to the earliest Neolithic in the region, and they have completely terrestrial diets, where the main protein source was most likely to have come from domesticated animals. Data are then compared to previous isotope and archaeological evidence to explore models for the spread of agriculture along the eastern Adriatic coast.

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