Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

TY - JOUR

T1 - Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

AU - Kristiansen, Kristian

AU - Allentoft, Morten Erik

AU - Frei, Karin Margarita

AU - Iversen, Rune

AU - Johannsen, Niels Nørkjær

AU - Kroonen, Guus

AU - Pospieszny, Lukasz

AU - Price, T. Douglas

AU - Rasmussen, Simon

AU - Sjögren, Karl-Göran

AU - Sikora, Martin

AU - Willerslev, Eske

PY - 2017/4/1

Y1 - 2017/4/1

N2 - Recent genetic, isotopic and linguistic research has dramatically changed our understanding of how the Corded Ware Culture in Europe was formed. Here the authors explain it in terms of local adaptations and interactions between migrant Yamnaya people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe and indigenous North European Neolithic cultures. The original herding economy of the Yamnaya migrants gradually gave way to new practices of crop cultivation, which led to the adoption of new words for those crops. The result of this hybridisation process was the formation of a new material culture, the Corded Ware Culture, and of a new dialect, Proto-Germanic. Despite a degree of hostility between expanding Corded Ware groups and indigenous Neolithic groups, stable isotope data suggest that exogamy provided a mechanism facilitating their integration. This article should be read in conjunction with that by Heyd (2017, in this issue).

AB - Recent genetic, isotopic and linguistic research has dramatically changed our understanding of how the Corded Ware Culture in Europe was formed. Here the authors explain it in terms of local adaptations and interactions between migrant Yamnaya people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe and indigenous North European Neolithic cultures. The original herding economy of the Yamnaya migrants gradually gave way to new practices of crop cultivation, which led to the adoption of new words for those crops. The result of this hybridisation process was the formation of a new material culture, the Corded Ware Culture, and of a new dialect, Proto-Germanic. Despite a degree of hostility between expanding Corded Ware groups and indigenous Neolithic groups, stable isotope data suggest that exogamy provided a mechanism facilitating their integration. This article should be read in conjunction with that by Heyd (2017, in this issue).

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Corded Ware culture

KW - Indo-European

KW - Migration

KW - 3rd millennium BC

KW - aDNA

KW - Mobility

KW - Neolithic

UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/retheorising-mobility-and-the-formation-of-culture-and-language-among-the-corded-ware-culture-in-europe/E35E6057F48118AFAC191BDFBB1EB30E

U2 - 10.15184/aqy.2017.17

DO - 10.15184/aqy.2017.17

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0003-598X

VL - 91

SP - 334

EP - 347

JO - Antiquity

JF - Antiquity

IS - 356

ER -