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  • The transition to farming in Mediterranean Europe - an indigenous response
    Budja, Mihael
    Abstract. the transition to farming in Mediterranean Europe is discussed in the contexts of the DNA analysys of male chromosomes, female mitochondrial genetic gradients, the maritime pioneer ... colonisation model, the Mediterranean sea voyages in Mesolithic and Neolithic, the "PPNB Exodus" in the Near East and the colonisation of southeastern Europe. It was argued that the hunters and gatherers at Ilipinar, in Franchthi and Theopetra caves, at Lepenski Vir and Padina were capable and ready to serve as a promoters of agro-pastorial farming in the coruse of which these communities could be expected to develop or to adopt and to modify agro-pastorial practises and pottery production and integrate the with existing subsistence strategies.
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 1999
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 11900514