NeoNet Dataset. Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Transition in the North Central-Western Mediterranean Basin

Thomas Huet,F Xavier Oms,Niccolò Mazzucco,Juan F Gibaja,Miriam Cubas

doi:10.5334/joad.87

Abstract

The NeoNet dataset aims to provide a new research tool for the study of the pioneer farming front (i.e. Neolithisation) in the North Central and North Western Mediterranean basin by focusing on the period of transition from a foraging to a farming economy (ca. 7000 to 3500 cal BC). The complete dataset is formed by the elencoc14.tsv file, a dataframe with tab-separated values, and a connex dataframe: thesaurus.tsv. The dataset contains 2,506 radiocarbon dates from 526 archaeological sites and 1,769 different archaeological records (stratigraphic units, structures, negative features, hearths, etc.). To ensure and facilitate the reuse of the radiocarbon dates, NeoNet’s data structure is based on the Euroevol database layout. Among other fields, particular attention has been paid to homogenisation of the laboratory code, the archaeological context, and the references, in order to facilitate further data extractions. Indeed, the dataset is linked to an opensource R Shiny interactive web app (NeoNet app), and a getter function (R package c14bazAAr, R function get_neonet).

Highlights

CONTEXT Between the seventh and the sixth millennia cal BC, Europe experienced unprecedented changes with the arrival of migrant communities of Near Eastern/Anatolian origin bearing pottery, domesticated plants and animals
This latter route is mainly associated with the groups bearing Impressed Ware pottery, which in a few centuries moved from western Greece to the southern façade of the Iberian Peninsula, along the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian coasts
ADNA analysis has suggested that genetic admixture between local hunter-gatherers and migrant Neolithic groups occurred in certain regions [14]

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Introduction

CONTEXT Between the seventh and the sixth millennia cal BC, Europe experienced unprecedented changes with the arrival of migrant communities of Near Eastern/Anatolian origin bearing pottery, domesticated plants and animals. Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Mesolithic/ Early Neolithic Transition in the North Central-Western Mediterranean Basin. Hundreds of radiocarbon dates have been published as an outcome of the research on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition.

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