at Balder
great informative post.
Have you heard about this recent Neolithic find (
Gök4) in Sweden ? [Apr. 2012]
http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-...om-the-mediterranean-1.10541?nc=1337092258562
Genetically
Gök4 is closest to "allele sharing" with East Mediterraneans (Cyprus and Greece) and overall very similar to
Ötzi.
http://dienekes.blogspot.de/2012/04/ancient-dna-from-neolithic-sweden.html
http://dienekes.blogspot.de/2012/04/first-look-at-dna-of-neolithic.html
your sources also show a southern (Danubian/Carpathian) impact for
Ertebolle and
Funnel Beaker
Pierre M. Vermeersch - Contributions to the Mesolithic in Europe (1990)
In addition to pottery, ornaments made from the teeth of extinct animals and the "shoe-last" axes of amphibolite, originating in an Danubian context in Silesia, Poland, appear in an Ertebolle context in Denmark (Fischer 1982, Vang Petersen 1990)
Something the map (A. Fischer) that you posted clearly shows with
Danubian settlements on the lower Oder and the
Danubian shaft-hole axes scattered over Zealand, Funen and East Jutland;
Sarunas Milisauskas - European Prehistory (2002)
In the Carpathian Mountains, south of the Funnel Beaker culture area, the beginnings of copper metallurgy occur during the Middle Neolithic period. The small quantities of copper artifacts that turn up in Funnel Beaker sites indicate that some sort of exchange network linked them to the Carpathian region.
This new find
Gök4 (east mediterranean) corresponds with
Busby et al. 2011; Neolithic migrations being from
"centres of renewed expansion"