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Disease, CCR5-Δ32 and the European spread of agriculture? A hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2012

Ian Holtby ,
Chris Scarre ,
R. Alexander Bentley  and
Peter Rowley-Conwy
Ian Holtby
Affiliation:
1Departments of Anthropology and Archaeology, Durham University, Dawson Bldg, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK (Email: ian.holtby@durham.ac.uk; chris.scarre@durham.ac.uk; p.a.rowley-conwy@durham.ac.uk)
Chris Scarre
Affiliation:
1Departments of Anthropology and Archaeology, Durham University, Dawson Bldg, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK (Email: ian.holtby@durham.ac.uk; chris.scarre@durham.ac.uk; p.a.rowley-conwy@durham.ac.uk)
R. Alexander Bentley
Affiliation:
2Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UU, UK (Email: r.a.bentley@bristol.ac.uk)
Peter Rowley-Conwy
Affiliation:
1Departments of Anthropology and Archaeology, Durham University, Dawson Bldg, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK (Email: ian.holtby@durham.ac.uk; chris.scarre@durham.ac.uk; p.a.rowley-conwy@durham.ac.uk)
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From its origins in the Starčcevo-Körös culture of the Hungarian Plain around 5700 BC the Neolithic archaeological assemblage of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK) spread within two centuries to reach Alsace and the middle Rhine by 5500 BC, though the rapidity of the spread makes it difficult to measure using available radiocarbon evidence (Dolukhanov et al. 2005). In this same time period, during the Terminal Mesolithic, c. 5800 to 5500 BC, there is evidence for forager-herder-horticulturists in Central andWestern Europe prior to the appearance of the LBK (Gronenborn 1999, 2009). The Cardial Neolithic complex spread round the shores of the northern Mediterranean from southern Italy to Portugal in the period 5700’5400 BC.

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Antiquity , Volume 86 , Issue 331 , March 2012 , pp. 207 - 210
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2012

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