The near-eastern roots of the Neolithic in South Asia.

The Fertile Crescent in the Near East is one of the independent origins of the Neolithic, the source from which farming and pottery-making spread across Europe from 9,000 to 6,000 years ago at an average rate of about 1 km/yr. There is also strong evidence for causal connections between the Near-Eas...

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Autores principales:	Kavita Gangal, Graeme R Sarson, Anvar Shukurov
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:03c00d85c9024f8bbce3ec550663de1f2021-11-18T08:20:18ZThe near-eastern roots of the Neolithic in South Asia.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0095714https://doaj.org/article/03c00d85c9024f8bbce3ec550663de1f2014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24806472/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The Fertile Crescent in the Near East is one of the independent origins of the Neolithic, the source from which farming and pottery-making spread across Europe from 9,000 to 6,000 years ago at an average rate of about 1 km/yr. There is also strong evidence for causal connections between the Near-Eastern Neolithic and that further east, up to the Indus Valley. The Neolithic in South Asia has been far less explored than its European counterpart, especially in terms of absolute (14)C) dating; hence, there were no previous attempts to assess quantitatively its spread in Asia. We combine the available (14)C data with the archaeological evidence for early Neolithic sites in South Asia to analyze the spatio-temporal continuity of the Neolithic dispersal from the Near East through the Middle East and to the Indian subcontinent. We reveal an approximately linear dependence between the age and the geodesic distance from the Near East, suggesting a systematic (but not necessarily uniform) spread at an average speed of about 0.65 km/yr.Kavita GangalGraeme R SarsonAnvar ShukurovPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 5, p e95714 (2014)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Kavita Gangal Graeme R Sarson Anvar Shukurov The near-eastern roots of the Neolithic in South Asia.
description	The Fertile Crescent in the Near East is one of the independent origins of the Neolithic, the source from which farming and pottery-making spread across Europe from 9,000 to 6,000 years ago at an average rate of about 1 km/yr. There is also strong evidence for causal connections between the Near-Eastern Neolithic and that further east, up to the Indus Valley. The Neolithic in South Asia has been far less explored than its European counterpart, especially in terms of absolute (14)C) dating; hence, there were no previous attempts to assess quantitatively its spread in Asia. We combine the available (14)C data with the archaeological evidence for early Neolithic sites in South Asia to analyze the spatio-temporal continuity of the Neolithic dispersal from the Near East through the Middle East and to the Indian subcontinent. We reveal an approximately linear dependence between the age and the geodesic distance from the Near East, suggesting a systematic (but not necessarily uniform) spread at an average speed of about 0.65 km/yr.
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title	The near-eastern roots of the Neolithic in South Asia.
title_short	The near-eastern roots of the Neolithic in South Asia.
title_full	The near-eastern roots of the Neolithic in South Asia.
title_fullStr	The near-eastern roots of the Neolithic in South Asia.
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The near-eastern roots of the Neolithic in South Asia.

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