Ci si è chiesto spesso quando e per che via l'Agricoltura riuscì ad entrare in Europa. Un modello terrestre potrebbe ipotizzare un passaggio lungo le coste dell'Egeo, che toccasse Tracia e Macedonia, per poi progredire verso sud in Tessaglia e Peloponneso. Ma questo modello è invece messo in dubbio, ora, dalle nuove date venute alla luce per la Grotta di Franchthi. Nella prima metà del VII millennio a.C. sarebbero stati coltivati cereali - incluse specie di nuova introduzione - nel sud della Grecia. E ciò sarebbe avvenuto prima che nella Grecia settentrionale e vari secoli prima che si coltivasse in Bulgaria.Questo suggerisce una trasmissione differente da quella terrestre: presuppone una connessione per via marina, passando da isola ad isola.Si tratta di risultati che mettono a fuoco l'importanza determinante di alcuni siti chiave - quali ad esempio Franchthi - nel formulare un quadro più veritiero riguardo alla transizione Neolitica europea...
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December 05, 2013
Early 7th millennium BC Initial Neolithic in Franchthi Cave
Antiquity Volume: 87 Number: 338 Page: 1001–1015
Early seventh-millennium AMS dates from domestic seeds in the Initial Neolithic at Franchthi Cave (Argolid, Greece)
Catherine Perlès, Anita Quiles and Hélène Valladas
When, and by what route, did farming first reach Europe? A terrestrial model might envisage a gradual advance around the northern fringes of the Aegean, reaching Thrace and Macedonia before continuing southwards to Thessaly and the Peloponnese. New dates from Franchthi Cave in southern Greece, reported here, cast doubt on such a model, indicating that cereal cultivation, involving newly introduced crop species, began during the first half of the seventh millennium BC. This is earlier than in northern Greece and several centuries earlier than in Bulgaria, and suggests that farming spread to south-eastern Europe by a number of different routes, including potentially a maritime, island-hopping connection across the Aegean Sea. The results also illustrate the continuing importance of key sites such as Franchthi to our understanding of the European Neolithic transition, and the additional insights that can emerge from the application of new dating projects to these sites.
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Early seventh-millennium AMS dates from domestic seeds in the Initial Neolithic at Franchthi Cave (Argolid, Greece)
Catherine Perlès, Anita Quiles and Hélène Valladas
When, and by what route, did farming first reach Europe? A terrestrial model might envisage a gradual advance around the northern fringes of the Aegean, reaching Thrace and Macedonia before continuing southwards to Thessaly and the Peloponnese. New dates from Franchthi Cave in southern Greece, reported here, cast doubt on such a model, indicating that cereal cultivation, involving newly introduced crop species, began during the first half of the seventh millennium BC. This is earlier than in northern Greece and several centuries earlier than in Bulgaria, and suggests that farming spread to south-eastern Europe by a number of different routes, including potentially a maritime, island-hopping connection across the Aegean Sea. The results also illustrate the continuing importance of key sites such as Franchthi to our understanding of the European Neolithic transition, and the additional insights that can emerge from the application of new dating projects to these sites.
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