Multi-isotope evidence of population aggregation in the Natufian and scant migration during the early Neolithic of the Southern Levant.

ABSTRACT: Human mobility and migration are thought to have played essential roles in the consolidation and expansion of sedentary villages, long-distance exchanges and transmission of ideas and practices during the Neolithic transition of the Near East. Few isotopic studies of human remains dating to this early complex transition offer direct evidence of mobility and migration. The aim of this study is to identify first-generation non-local individuals from Natufian to Pre-Pottery Neolithic C periods to explore the scope of human mobility and migration during the Neolithic transition in the Southern Levant, an area that is central to this historical process. The study adopted a multi-approach resorting to strontium (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr), oxygen (δ18O_VSMOW) and carbon (δ¹³

SUBMITTER: Santana J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8178372 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature