tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post1047837943802067359..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Pre-Neolithic Mediterranean Island settlementDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-81184937329895551032012-11-19T21:45:11.593+02:002012-11-19T21:45:11.593+02:00This seems to strengthen the case for what is real...This seems to strengthen the case for what is really 'ongoing' trans-mediterranean migration, across time periods. If the mediterranean acted more like a continual or at least intermittent highway for genes and goods, this could explain the higher mediterranean autosomal component of the La Brana individual relative to other contemporary mesolithic europeans, and could even explain mtDNA haplogroup H showing up at Linatzeta around 6200 BC as per the Lacan thesis and even earlier at La Pasiega as per the Hervella paper. All of these may be thought of as signals of eastern/trans-mediterranean admixture prior to the neolithic.<br /><br />Continuing this line of thought about coast-hopping movement and trade in the pre-neolithic would ultimately have the degree of neolithic replacement reduced in many mediterranean and atlantic-facade regions and provide a more deep-seated contrast between southern/western and northeastern/baltic pre-neolithic europeans. In this view the neolithic transition would mark an acceleration of a pre-existing trend of movement rather than a new development, and possibly reconcile some the haplogroup expansion age estimates that appear to somewhat predate the neolithic but are nonetheless heavily tied to it (e.g. mtDNA H).Black Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12608950569578025238noreply@blogger.com