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We can split the Neolithic of South East Europe in two stages.
The first starts in 6850 BC with the Seklo culture in Greece and lead to the foundation of Starcevo (former yougoslavia) and Körös culture (Hungary) . Those very first farmers may have carry the Mediterranean/ Southern admixture as well as haplogroups I2a and G2a.
The second one saw the foundation around 5500 BC of Vinca and Dimini culture with clear links with the Anatolian area and Syria (the Halaf culture ) together forming the Dark Burnished Ware complex.
M. Özdögan and N. Baseglen talk about a "common developping zone" between north west Anatolia and North East Balkans. Vinca style houses can be found in the Marmara sea area BEFORE the Black sea deluge ( Ilipinar, 6000 BC).
The ofshoots of the Vinca culture (Karanovo etc) overtook the former local neolithic cultures and forced the local folks to flee in the peripheral regions (Moldavia, Illyria, etc) where we found high levels of I2a today.
In the same time, the LBK culture also starts out of the old Starcevo körös neolithic stock that's why we've found G2a and I2a in LBK, and also Printed Cardium ancient dna.
In the map below, the first culture that have their roots in the Seklo culture are shown in blue. They probably brought the Southern admixture to southwestern Europe.
The second Neolithic wave is shown in orange. The LBK (rubanné in French) is red.
The second neolithic wave in South eastern Europe may have been caused by the Black sea deluge with populations living in the southern Black sea shores probably carrying J2 (and maybe R1b L23 already) fleeing to Greece, and the Northern Balkan region via the Bosphorus. Hence the replacement of the old I2a and G2a by the J2 newcomers.
Accordng to wikipedia:
In the two pictures below, we see the stricking resemblance between Vinca and the obeid (Mesopotamia) mother godess which ponts to a clear West asian link.
mother godess from Vinca
An other evidence of the Link between Vinca and West asian culture is the use of Swastika.
Accordng to wikipedia:
Interestingly, you also find swastika in the Hassuna-Samarra culture( -56000 - 5000 BC, Irak)
The West asians farmers living in Anatolia and Caucasus may have been pushed westward to Europe and southward to the middle east, spreading their refined culture to the south (Halaf, Samarra, Obeid and ultimately Sumer) and the west (Vinca, Dimini).
That second wave of Neolithic didn't reach Western, Northern and Southwestern Europe (except Sicily and southern Italy which are high in J2) that is why western and northern european have more Mediterranean than west Aian admixture.
What is tricky with the West asian distribution map is that it doesn't make the difference between mostly J2 and mostly R1b populations. The high levels of west Asian in south east europeans and Southern Italians is probably due to that later neolithic wave coming from Anatolia and carrying J2.
The first starts in 6850 BC with the Seklo culture in Greece and lead to the foundation of Starcevo (former yougoslavia) and Körös culture (Hungary) . Those very first farmers may have carry the Mediterranean/ Southern admixture as well as haplogroups I2a and G2a.
The second one saw the foundation around 5500 BC of Vinca and Dimini culture with clear links with the Anatolian area and Syria (the Halaf culture ) together forming the Dark Burnished Ware complex.
M. Özdögan and N. Baseglen talk about a "common developping zone" between north west Anatolia and North East Balkans. Vinca style houses can be found in the Marmara sea area BEFORE the Black sea deluge ( Ilipinar, 6000 BC).
The ofshoots of the Vinca culture (Karanovo etc) overtook the former local neolithic cultures and forced the local folks to flee in the peripheral regions (Moldavia, Illyria, etc) where we found high levels of I2a today.
In the same time, the LBK culture also starts out of the old Starcevo körös neolithic stock that's why we've found G2a and I2a in LBK, and also Printed Cardium ancient dna.
In the map below, the first culture that have their roots in the Seklo culture are shown in blue. They probably brought the Southern admixture to southwestern Europe.
The second Neolithic wave is shown in orange. The LBK (rubanné in French) is red.
The second neolithic wave in South eastern Europe may have been caused by the Black sea deluge with populations living in the southern Black sea shores probably carrying J2 (and maybe R1b L23 already) fleeing to Greece, and the Northern Balkan region via the Bosphorus. Hence the replacement of the old I2a and G2a by the J2 newcomers.
Accordng to wikipedia:
The "invasion theory" states that the Sesklo culture lasted more than one full millennium up until 5000 BC when it was violently conquered by people of the Dimini culture. The Dimini culture in this theory is considered different from that found at Sesklo
In the two pictures below, we see the stricking resemblance between Vinca and the obeid (Mesopotamia) mother godess which ponts to a clear West asian link.
An other evidence of the Link between Vinca and West asian culture is the use of Swastika.
Accordng to wikipedia:
Among the earliest cultures utilizing swastika is the neolithic Vinča culture of South-East Europe .
Interestingly, you also find swastika in the Hassuna-Samarra culture( -56000 - 5000 BC, Irak)
The West asians farmers living in Anatolia and Caucasus may have been pushed westward to Europe and southward to the middle east, spreading their refined culture to the south (Halaf, Samarra, Obeid and ultimately Sumer) and the west (Vinca, Dimini).
That second wave of Neolithic didn't reach Western, Northern and Southwestern Europe (except Sicily and southern Italy which are high in J2) that is why western and northern european have more Mediterranean than west Aian admixture.
What is tricky with the West asian distribution map is that it doesn't make the difference between mostly J2 and mostly R1b populations. The high levels of west Asian in south east europeans and Southern Italians is probably due to that later neolithic wave coming from Anatolia and carrying J2.