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Prehistoric human migration in the Linearbandkeramik of Central Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

T. Douglas Price ,
R. Alexander Bentley ,
Jens Lüning ,
Detlef Gronenborn  and
Joachim Wahl
T. Douglas Price
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison WI 53706, USA, tdprice@facstaff.wisc.edu
R. Alexander Bentley
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1180 Observatory Drive, Madison WI 53706, USA, tdprice@facstaff.wisc.edu
Jens Lüning
Affiliation:
Seminar für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Archäologie und Archäobotanik Afrikas, Robert-Mayer-Strasse 1, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
Detlef Gronenborn
Affiliation:
Seminar für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Archäologie und Archäobotanik Afrikas, Robert-Mayer-Strasse 1, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
Joachim Wahl
Affiliation:
Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, Archäologische Denkmalpflege, Osteologie, Stromeyersdorfstrasse 3, 78467 Konstanz, Germany
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Abstract

This paper presents a revised chronology for the Linearbandkeramik and strontium isotope measurements of human skeletal material from two cemeteries which indicate a high incidence of migration. It appears that LBK farmers were highly migratory and interacted with surrounding communities.

Keywords

Linearbandkeramikstrontium isotope analysismigrationRhine ValleyNeolithic
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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 289 , September 2001 , pp. 593 - 603
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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