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- The study investigates the interplay between genetic and cultural evolution among European hunter-gatherers during the Gravettian period (34,000-24,000 years ago) using a new georeferenced dataset of personal ornaments.
- Through advanced statistical analyses, the researchers found that the variability in these ornaments can't be solely explained by geographic distance, revealing nine distinct cultural groups across Europe.
- The findings suggest a more intricate relationship between cultural diversity and genetic ancestry, indicating that some cultural entities exist in regions lacking genetic data while others are closely related to genetically similar populations.
Article Abstract
Mechanisms governing the relationship between genetic and cultural evolution are the subject of debate, data analysis and modelling efforts. Here we present a new georeferenced dataset of personal ornaments worn by European hunter-gatherers during the so-called Gravettian technocomplex (34,000-24,000 years ago), analyse it with multivariate and geospatial statistics, model the impact of distance on cultural diversity and contrast the outcome of our analyses with up-to-date palaeogenetic data. We demonstrate that Gravettian ornament variability cannot be explained solely by isolation-by-distance. Analysis of Gravettian ornaments identified nine geographically discrete cultural entities across Europe. While broadly in agreement with palaeogenetic data, our results highlight a more complex pattern, with cultural entities located in areas not yet sampled by palaeogenetics and distinctive entities in regions inhabited by populations of similar genetic ancestry. Integrating personal ornament and biological data from other Palaeolithic cultures will elucidate the complex narrative of population dynamics of Upper Palaeolithic Europe.
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