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Results of the paper Female exogamy and patrilocality at the transition from Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Southern Germany might be available after the Scales of Movement in Early Village Societies workshop (24/11/2016):
One of the authors is Prof. Krause. The abstract seems to point that BB continually added extra mtDNAs and would confirm the high "exchange" of women in such culture. The autosomal effects of such extended exchanges is to be taken into account... Even so we know that BB provided in Germany their first R1b so that at least a first big migration of R1b must be accounted there.
The Lech Valley allows farming in the north, but in the south there is too rainfall to allow agriculture so that (cow)herders could inhabit long there. My bet is that such level of exchange is debt to the long travels that cowherders did. Per example even today there are in Spain cowherders that travel some 500 km from their winter station to their summer station in Andalusia.
After the BB the local culture of the area studied suppossedly was the Arbon culture (but not known graves!), so that whichever mtDNA they have found for such period it would be from outliers...(?). It's interesting that by 1700 BC, when such patrilocal system ended, the region was got by the Tumulus Culture, the precedessor of the Urnfiel culture, precedessor of the Hallstat culture, precedessor of the Celts.
The transition from the late Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe is a time period for which human mobility has been vividly debated in archaeological research. This presentation contributes to these considerations using an interdisciplinary approach that integrates ancient mitochondrial DNA analysis, the determination of stable isotope ratios of strontium and oxygen in tooth enamel, and archaeological analysis of radiocarbon dated skeletal remains. They represent 83 human individuals from 6 sites of the Bell Beaker Complex and the early Bronze Age in the Lech Valley in Southern Bavaria, Germany. Mitochondrial DNA analysis documented a diversification of haplogroups over time. Strontium and oxygen isotope ratios disclosed more than half of the females to be non-local, while there were only single occurrences among the male and subadult individuals. This striking pattern of patrilocality and female exogamy prevailed between about 2500 and 1700 BC. It was independent of individual sites and their archaeological assignments to the Bell Beaker Complex or the Early Bronze Age. While the males ensured settlement continuity in a spatially limited area, the results indicate that the females were driving forces for regional and supra-regional communication and exchange at the dawn of the European Metal Ages.
One of the authors is Prof. Krause. The abstract seems to point that BB continually added extra mtDNAs and would confirm the high "exchange" of women in such culture. The autosomal effects of such extended exchanges is to be taken into account... Even so we know that BB provided in Germany their first R1b so that at least a first big migration of R1b must be accounted there.
The Lech Valley allows farming in the north, but in the south there is too rainfall to allow agriculture so that (cow)herders could inhabit long there. My bet is that such level of exchange is debt to the long travels that cowherders did. Per example even today there are in Spain cowherders that travel some 500 km from their winter station to their summer station in Andalusia.
After the BB the local culture of the area studied suppossedly was the Arbon culture (but not known graves!), so that whichever mtDNA they have found for such period it would be from outliers...(?). It's interesting that by 1700 BC, when such patrilocal system ended, the region was got by the Tumulus Culture, the precedessor of the Urnfiel culture, precedessor of the Hallstat culture, precedessor of the Celts.