Angela
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I'd have to go back and check all the dates again, but if this isn't the first movement out of the Near East, it's close to it, and probably from that "sweet spot" at the juncture of modern day eastern Turkey and northern Syria, an area from which we have as yet no adna. I wonder if they were closer to Levant Neolithic or Anatolian Neolithic people. The fact that the culture has close ties to the Levant Neolithic might indicate that these people form a large part of their genome inheritance.
It seems that 70 kilometers of open sea wasn't much of a problem for them, even though they must have made the trip with their grains, animals and tools. I wonder what propelled them to make what must have been a dangerous journey.
See:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-uncover-cyprus-year-old-village.html
"The Department said the village's organization, architecture, stone tools and evidence of agriculture and hunting are elements that are very similar to those that have already been identified in the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant between 11,500 and 10,500 years ago."
They grew emmer wheat, and had domesticated dogs and cats.
"Excavations directed by Francois Briois from France's School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and Jean-Denis Vigne from France's National Center for Scientific Research-National Museum of Natural History found most buildings had built-in fireplaces as well as a 30- to 50-kilogram (66- to 110-pound) millstone.Large quantities of stone tools, stone vessels, stone and shell beads or pendants were also discovered.
The buildings, with a diameter of between three and six meters (10 and 20 feet), were built using earth and strengthened with wooden poles while their floors were often plastered.
The buildings are situated around a circular, 10-meter (33-foot) communal building that was unearthed during digs five years ago. Further surveys and digs carried out since show that the village would have covered an area of at least half a hectare (1¼ acres)."
Earlier excavations had found a water well.
It seems that 70 kilometers of open sea wasn't much of a problem for them, even though they must have made the trip with their grains, animals and tools. I wonder what propelled them to make what must have been a dangerous journey.
See:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-uncover-cyprus-year-old-village.html
"The Department said the village's organization, architecture, stone tools and evidence of agriculture and hunting are elements that are very similar to those that have already been identified in the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic Levant between 11,500 and 10,500 years ago."
They grew emmer wheat, and had domesticated dogs and cats.
"Excavations directed by Francois Briois from France's School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and Jean-Denis Vigne from France's National Center for Scientific Research-National Museum of Natural History found most buildings had built-in fireplaces as well as a 30- to 50-kilogram (66- to 110-pound) millstone.Large quantities of stone tools, stone vessels, stone and shell beads or pendants were also discovered.
The buildings, with a diameter of between three and six meters (10 and 20 feet), were built using earth and strengthened with wooden poles while their floors were often plastered.
The buildings are situated around a circular, 10-meter (33-foot) communal building that was unearthed during digs five years ago. Further surveys and digs carried out since show that the village would have covered an area of at least half a hectare (1¼ acres)."
Earlier excavations had found a water well.