G15 - Bioarchaeological Perspectives on the Neolithic Transition

Session Organisers: Wolfgang Haak, Mehmet Somel

Category: Archaeometry

Session Abstract: This session will cover bioarchaeological advances that can or will shed new light on the Neolithic from the perspective of natural sciences, broadly including ancient DNA from animal, plants and humans, stable and dietary isotopes, microbiome, proteomics and residue analyses. The scope of the session is multidisciplinary and covers the many regions of the world that have witnessed a transition from foraging to food producing, sedentary lifestyles, including the domestication of plants and animals. Emphasis is placed on comparisons of data from before, during and after the transition, between foraging and farming groups, or between regions, which can identify and characterise modes of change or continuity, but also on patterns of assimilation, exchange and admixture. Cross-regional, comparative analyses of bioarchaeological evidence on Neolithic transitions, i.e., from different parts of the world, would also be highly welcome. We invite contributions of 20 minutes (incl. discussion time) on any of the four themes, or combinations thereof: 1) The roles of human movement and cultural interaction in processes of sociocultural change during the Neolithic transitions, studied through genetic continuity vs. discontinuity through time 2) Individual mobility, kinship practices and social organization in early sedentary communities 3) The domestication of animals and plants, with particular emphasis on the tempo of domestication processes 4) Evidence from dietary isotopes and residue analyses (e.g. proteomics or lipidomics) that are shedding light on changing lifestyles

Room: C

04/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	Kevin G. Daly, Louis L’hôte, Ian Light, Valeria Mattiangeli, Matthew D. Teasdale, Áine Halpin, Lionel Gourichon, Felix M. Key	An 8,000 years old genome reveals the Neolithic origin of the zoonosis Brucella melitensis
13:15 - 13:30	Patrícia Santos, Maria Teresa Vizzari, Rajiv Boscolo Agostini, Claudio Ottoni, Andrea Quagliariello, Alessandra Modi, Martina Lari, Silvia Ghirotto	The Neolithic transition from a bacterial perspective: a population genetic approach
13:30 - 13:45	Sierra Blunt, E. Andrew Bennett, Marica Baldoni, Harmony De Belvalet, Fanny Mendisco, Claudio Ottoni, Mélanie Pruvost	Ancient metagenomic perspectives on the Neolithic Transition in France
13:45 - 14:00	Maria Teresa Vizzari, Silvia Ghirotto, Rajiv Boscolo Agostini, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Lara Cassidy, Andrea Manica, Andrea Benazzo	Robust demographic inference from low-coverage whole-genome data through Approximate Bayesian Computation
14:00 - 14:15	Mehmet Somel, Dilek Koptekin	Inter-regional mobility in SW Asia and E Asia following the Neolithic Transition: paleogenomic insights

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:00	Jo-Hannah Plug, Kelly Blevins, Frédéric Abbès, Peter Akkermans, Anna Bach Gómez, Marie-Laure Chambrade, Bérénice Chamel, Eric Coqueugniot, Miguel Molist Montaña, Marie Orange, Jessica Pearson, Eva Eva Fernandez-Dominguez	Inter-Regional Mobility and Group Membership in Neolithic Northern Syria: A Diachronic Isotopic and Archaeological Investigation
15:00 - 15:15	Zia Ur Rahman, Kong Qingpeng, Li Yuchun	Contemporary Indus Valley population mitogenomes reveals substantial local transition and limited demic diffusion of early Neolithic farmers in South Asia
15:15 - 15:30	Snigdha Konar, Niraj Rai	Re-examining Sociocultural Dynamics in the Indus Valley Civilization: Perspectives from Genetic Persistence and Social Structure
15:30 - 15:45	Parasayan Oguzhan, Grange Thierry, Geigl Eva-Maria	Paleogenomics of Imputed Genomes Reveals and Dates Admixture Pulses and Associated Cultural Practices Throughout the European Neolithic
15:45 - 16:00	Juliette Sauvage, Maël Lefeuvre, Françoise Dessarps, Marine Delvigne, Sophie Lafosse, Marie-Claude Marsolier, Aline Thomas, Céline Bon	When cultural insight of admixture does not match genome ancestry: the case of the Cerny culture (Middle Neolithic, Northern France)

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:50	Sergio Jiménez-Manchón, Cheryl Makarewicz, Hamzeh Mahasneh, Lionel Gourichon, Juan José Ibáñez	The Early Management of Caprines in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Southern Levant: New Insights from Animal Palaeodiet Reconstruction Using Dental Wear Analyses
16:50 - 17:10	Bendhafer Wejden, Cornet Sarah, Geigl Eva-Maria, Grange Thierry	Paleogenomics Of Wild Cattle and Their Domestication
17:10 - 17:30	Laurent Frantz, David Stanton, Aurelie Manin, Anna Linderholm, Thomas Cucchi, Allowen Evin, Keith Dobney, Greger Larson	Ancient pig genomes reveal the origin and legacy of pigs translocated during the Austronesian expansion
17:30 - 17:50	Dan Bradley	Ancient genomes of aurochs and cattle and the nature of domestication.