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SoSe 20: Farmers with migration background: The Neolithic in Southeast Europe 6500-5000 BC

Wolfram Schier

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Due to the current crisis this lecture will be held online exclusively. Content is provided via Blackboard and WebExMeeting (WebEx by Cisco). Further details will folllow within the next weeks. All participants should have access to theír regular Zedat email account, as all communication will be processed this way. close

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The transition to sedentary way of life, animal husbandry and cultivation of crops is one of the major transformations in the history of mankind. In Europe its first appearance is in Greece and the Balkan peninsula. Its origins in Wester Asia have hardly ever been disputed, but causes, factors and circumstances of the spread of the Neolithic as well as the role of indigenous hunter-gatherers have been debated controversially during the last decades. The growing number of paleogenetic studies of the last years corroborated the migration hypothesis, nevertheless a regionally and chronologically differentiated treatment of this period of one and half millennia, subdivided into Early, Middle and, in some regions, even Late Neolithic, appears as necessary as ever. The lecture series provides an overview over the materiality, social and cultural processes and selected sites, focussing on the Balkan peninsula. close