Disease, CCR5-32 and the European spread of agriculture? A hypothesis

Holtby, Ian; Scarre, Chris; Bentley, R. Alexander; Rowley-Conwy, Peter

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00062554

Disease, CCR5-32 and the European spread of agriculture? A hypothesis

Holtby, Ian; Scarre, Chris; Bentley, R. Alexander; Rowley-Conwy, Peter

Authors

Ian Holtby

Chris Scarre

R. Alexander Bentley

Peter Rowley-Conwy

Abstract

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.

Citation

Holtby, I., Scarre, C., Bentley, R. A., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2012). Disease, CCR5-32 and the European spread of agriculture? A hypothesis. Antiquity, 86(331), 207-210. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00062554

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Mar 1, 2012
Deposit Date	Feb 29, 2012
Publicly Available Date	Apr 4, 2012
Journal	Antiquity
Print ISSN	0003-598X
Electronic ISSN	1745-1744
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	86
Issue	331
Pages	207-210
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00062554