First farming in the north-western Mediterranean: evidence from Castellar-Pendimoun during the sixth millennium BCE

Didier Binder*, Janet Battentier, Laurent Bouby, Jacques Elie Brochier, Alain Carré, Thomas Cucchi, Claire Delhon, Cristina De Stefanis, Léa Drieu, Linus Girdland-Flink, Allowen Evin, Gwenaëlle Goude, Lionel Gourichon, Sébastien Guillon, Caroline Hamon, Stéphanie Thiébault

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Abstract

The Neolithisation of the central and western Mediterranean has been attributed to groups belonging to the Impressed-wares or Impresso-Cardial complex (Bernabò Brea, 1950).  The mechanism by which farmers dispersed towards the North-West and the character of their interaction iwth late hunters-gatherers is still debated (Guilance et al., 2007; Binder, 2013; Perrin and Binder, 2014; Bernabeu et al., 2015; Isern et al., 2016; Binder et al., 2017b). However, recent aDNA analyses suggest that Aegean populations were the origin of Western Neolithic populations (Hofmanova et al., 2016) and that Mesolithic admixture could have only occurred secondarily and probably post-dates the middle of the sixth millennium BCE (Rivollat et al. 2017). 
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFarmers at the Frontier
Subtitle of host publicationA Pan European Perspective on Neolithisation
EditorsKurt J. Gron, Lasse Sørensen, Peter Rowley-Conwy
Place of PublicationOxford, UK
PublisherOxbow Books
Chapter6
Pages145-159
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-78925-141-8
ISBN (Print)978-1-78925-140-1
Publication statusPublished - 6 Apr 2020

Bibliographical note

This study has been undertaken with the support of the ETICALP Project (French Ministry of Culture and Communication, 2008-2014) and of the CIMO Project (ANR-14-CE31-009).

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