Early contact between late farming and pastoralist societies in southeastern Europe
" cultural exchange & biological interactions of many genetically distinct people coming together .. as early as 5,400 to 6,500 years ago.
Due to this "melting pot" the #eneolithic was characterized by a number of innovations... such as wheels, wagon transportation and improved metal-working spread quickly into western #Europe and #CentralAsia.
#yamnaya #Cucuteni #archeology #copperage
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-ancient-dna-reveals-earliest-evidence.html
5000-year-old female figurines found in a Ukrainian cave https://arkeonews.net/5000-year-old-female-figurines-found-in-a-ukrainian-cave/ via @DeArcheoloog #neolithic #chalcolithic #Trypillian #Cucuteni
Just added hashtags for all interested in #archaeology
... #archaeologists excavating in Verteba Cave in western Ukraine have discovered a trove of five female ceramic #figurines made some 5,000 years ago by the #Neolithic and #CopperAge people known to scholars as the #Cucuteni-#Trypillia culture.