Bones and Seeds: An Integrated Approach to Understanding the Spread of Farming across the Western Balkans

Authors: Gaastra, J.S., de Vareilles, A. and Vander Linden, M.

Journal: Environmental Archaeology

Volume: 27

Issue: 1

Pages: 44-60

eISSN: 1749-6314

ISSN: 1461-4103

DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2019.1578016

Abstract:

Animals and plants, both farmed and hunted/collected, were an integrated part of the Neolithic food economy. When jointly analysed these can provide a holistic view of early food production systems which goes beyond individual descriptions of herd management and crop cultivation. Exhaustive surveys of both Neolithic zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical data were collected from the western Balkans and neighbouring regions (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, southern Hungary, western Romania and eastern Italy). Here we combine both sets of data to explore the Neolithic food economy along the maritime and inland streams of Neolithisation. We demonstrate that, notwithstanding significant limitations, it is possible to compare and combine the datasets and present an integrated approach to the spread and development of farming within the western Balkans. Our research also evinces diachronic and spatial differences within the exploitation of domesticated and wild species, and the factors that may have influenced such practices.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33611/

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Bones and Seeds: An Integrated Approach to Understanding the Spread of Farming across the Western Balkans

Authors: Gaastra, J.S., de Vareilles, A. and Vander Linden, M.

Journal: ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Volume: 27

Issue: 1

Pages: 44-60

eISSN: 1749-6314

ISSN: 1461-4103

DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2019.1578016

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33611/

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Bones and seeds: an integrated approach to understanding the spread of farming across the western Balkans

Authors: Gaastra, J., de Vareilles, A. and Vander Linden, M.

Journal: Environmental Archaeology: the journal of human palaeoecology

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISSN: 0268-425X

DOI: 10.1080/14614103.2019.1578016

Abstract:

The western Balkans is a key area for understanding early farming in prehistoric Europe, as it encompasses, in close but distinct geographic spaces, the two main streams of diffusion of animal and plant domesticates across the continent. From c.6000 BC onwards, early farming diffuses on the one hand across an inland corridor corresponding to modern-day inland Croatia, Serbia, Romania and Hungary, which will lead to further extension along the RhineDanube axis; on the other hand, early farming diffuses westwards along the northern Mediterranean, encompassing the Adriatic basin. The spatial proximity of both streams of diffusion offers a unique opportunity to cast a comparative eye over some of the earliest forms of farming in Europe.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33611/

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Bones and seeds: an integrated approach to understanding the spread of farming across the western Balkans

Authors: Gaastra, J., de Vareilles, A. and Vander Linden, M.

Journal: Environmental archaeology: the journal of human palaeoecology

Volume: 27

Issue: 1

Pages: 44-60

ISSN: 1461-4103

Abstract:

The western Balkans is a key area for understanding early farming in prehistoric Europe, as it encompasses, in close but distinct geographic spaces, the two main streams of diffusion of animal and plant domesticates across the continent. From c.6000 BC onwards, early farming diffuses on the one hand across an inland corridor corresponding to modern-day inland Croatia, Serbia, Romania and Hungary, which will lead to further extension along the RhineDanube axis; on the other hand, early farming diffuses westwards along the northern Mediterranean, encompassing the Adriatic basin. The spatial proximity of both streams of diffusion offers a unique opportunity to cast a comparative eye over some of the earliest forms of farming in Europe.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/33611/

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