ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315432373/2d4807a4-6aa6-40a5-9dcc-5e2203577e80/content/fig1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>In recent years, the evidence for culture contact between agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers along the ‘frontier zone’ of the classic Neolithic of the ‘Danubian Tradition’ has increased and the scenarios have become much more complex. Inter-group and inter-personal contacts appear to have resulted in a variety of mixed economies, with farming and pastoralism adopted to a certain extent in the west, while the hunter-gatherer population towards the north remained largely unaffected until the terminal 5th millennium cal BC, although long-term contacts had also existed across these economic barriers. The different economic—and cultural—traditions forming the neolithization process between the 7th and 5th millennium cal BC across Temperate Western Eurasia may be coarsely grouped into an Occidental-Mediterranean tradition of possibly partly African origins, the classic Danubian Tradition, and what may be termed the Hyperborean Tradition with its roots ultimately in the Russian steppe zones and possibly in the Russian Far East. These ‘streams’ are geographically correlated with geographical patterns of YDNA and mtDNA diversity and may be traced back to human re-colonization after the glacial maximum.
