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SUMMARY:Talks of the Past (ToP) Open Seminar\, 7th May\, 2025: Discussing mobility and cultural change in the context of Aegean Neolithization\, speaker Mehmet Somel
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nMehmet Somel will present some recent results on the first steps of the Neolithic expansion westward\, “out-of-Anatolia”. For this study\, his group generated 30 new paleogenomes from six settlements in West and Central Anatolia dating to c.10\,000-8\,000 years ago. The researchers further compiled a digitalized material culture dataset comprising 58 cultural elements\, from architecture and tools to burial types and pottery styles.  The dataset revealed that the westward expansion of the Neolithic was much more diverse in its dynamics than usually assumed. \nBy 10\,000 years ago\, in West Anatolia\, they found cultural adoption of Neolithic elements\, but without genetic evidence for mobility. By 8\,500 years ago\, they found mobility from Neolithic core areas in the east\, where the incomers mixed with local foraging groups in West Anatolia. Later\, the descendants of this genetically mixed population expanded into Europe to establish the Neolithic there. \nSecondly\, Mehmet’s group performed a quantitative comparison of material culture similarities among settlements with their genetic and spatial proximities. This showed that genetic history had no explanatory impact on material culture similarities after controlling for spatial similarity. This supports the notion that material culture similarity patterns are shaped by background mobility rather than migration processes. \nRelated article (pre-press):\nKoptekin\, D.\, Aydoğan\, A.\, Karamurat\, C.\, Altınışık\, N. E.\, Vural\, K. B.\, Kazancı\, D. D.\, … & Somel\, M. (2024). Out-of-Anatolia: cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean. bioRxiv\, 2024-06. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.23.599747v1.full \n  \n \nMehmet Somel is a professor of biology at the Middle East Technical University\, Ankara\, Turkey\, and the Human Past Senior Fellow 2024-25. He will deliver the ToP seminar on his current research project. \nYou can read about the fellowships and other research projects here.
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/talks-of-the-past-top-open-seminar-7th-may-2025-speaker-mehmet-somel/
LOCATION:Blåsenhus\, UU\, lärosal 13:028 (plan 1)
CATEGORIES:Seminars,Talks of the Past
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SUMMARY:SCAS SEMINAR - Genetic Insights into Social Organisation of Neolithic Societies in Anatolia: Kinship and Gender Roles\, speaker Mehmet Somel
DESCRIPTION:Mehmet Somel is a professor of biology at the Middle East Technical University\, Ankara\, Turkey\, and the Human Past Senior Fellow 2024-25. \nThe abstract will follow.
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/scas-seminar-genetic-insights-into-social-organisation-of-neolithic-societies-in-anatolia-kinship-and-gender-roles-speaker-mehmet-somel/
LOCATION:Thunberg Hall\, Linneanum\, Thunbergsvägen 2\, Uppsala\, 752 36\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Mini-Seminar: Graves & Grammar. Interdisciplinary approaches to changes in material culture\, burial practice and language in Upper Dalarna 500-750 CE\, with Joakim Wehlin and Yair Sapir
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nYair Sapir\, PhD of Scandinavian Languages\, Senior Lecturer of Swedish\, Kristianstad University\nJoakim Wehlin\, Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor\, Archaeology\, Uppsala University \n \nSummary\nRecent archaeological studies demonstrate changes in the material culture and burial practice in Upper Dalarna around 500-750 CE. The material culture and burial practice go from a previously locally distinctive tradition with influences from all directions\, to a tradition that culturally points towards clearer contacts with the Mälardalen region. As the recently published A Grammar of Elfdalian points out\, Elfdalian and adjacent varieties\, spoken to date in Upper Dalarna\, have preserved some phonological and lexical features\, which were inherited from the Ancient Nordic language (i.e.\, before c. 750 CE) and which were lost elsewhere in the Nordic language area after c. 750. Ancient Nordic was probably not native to Upper Dalarna at that time\, as the local population is known to have consisted of hunter-gatherers and not farmers\, as the native speakers of Germanic languages. \nResults from both studies hence confirm the thesis that both material and immaterial influence have probably reached Upper Dalarna from the Mälardalen region. However\, we believe that targeted interdisciplinary studies by means of an interdisciplinary research project could deepen our knowledge about this topic and further confirm. Hence\, we would like to invite our audience to a discussion about the topic\, suggestions for new perspectives that could be studied\, as well as suggestions for concrete research collaboration for a future research project\, where other disciplines are involved.
URL:https://centerforthehumanpast.se/index.php/event/mini-seminar-on-elfdalian-with-joakim-wahlin-archaeology-and-yair-sapir-linguistics-by-invitation/
LOCATION:Villa Lugnet\, von Kraemers allé 8\, Uppsala\, Sweden\, 75236\, Sweden
CATEGORIES:Mini-Seminars,Seminars
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