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Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia
The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary structures, artifacts and techniques indicate times of change with increasing economic asymmetries and political hierarchization. Technological...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9794729/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36575206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25975-9 |
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author | Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa Oliart, Camila Rihuete-Herrada, Cristina Rohrlach, Adam B. Fregeiro, María Inés Childebayeva, Ainash Ringbauer, Harald Olalde, Iñigo Celdrán Beltrán, Eva Puello-Mora, Catherine Valério, Miguel Krause, Johannes Lull, Vicente Micó, Rafael Risch, Roberto Haak, Wolfgang |
author_facet | Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa Oliart, Camila Rihuete-Herrada, Cristina Rohrlach, Adam B. Fregeiro, María Inés Childebayeva, Ainash Ringbauer, Harald Olalde, Iñigo Celdrán Beltrán, Eva Puello-Mora, Catherine Valério, Miguel Krause, Johannes Lull, Vicente Micó, Rafael Risch, Roberto Haak, Wolfgang |
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description | The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary structures, artifacts and techniques indicate times of change with increasing economic asymmetries and political hierarchization. Technological advances in metallurgy also played an important role, facilitating trade and exchange networks, which became tangible in higher levels of mobility and connectedness. Archeogenetic studies have revealed a substantial transformation of the genetic ancestry around this time, ultimately linked to the expansion of steppe- and forest steppe pastoralists from Eastern Europe. Evidence for emerging infectious diseases such as Yersinia pestis adds further complexity to these tumultuous and transformative times. The El Argar complex in southern Iberia marks the genetic turnover in southwestern Europe ~ 2200 BCE that accompanies profound changes in the socio-economic structure of the region. To answer the question of who was buried in the emblematic double burials of the El Argar site La Almoloya, we integrated results from biological relatedness analyses and archaeological funerary contexts and refined radiocarbon-based chronologies from 68 individuals. We find that the El Argar society was virilocally and patrilineally organized and practiced reciprocal female exogamy, supported by pedigrees that extend up to five generations along the paternal line. Synchronously dated adult males and females from double tombs were found to be unrelated mating partners, whereby the incoming females reflect socio-political alliances among El Argar groups. In three cases these unions had common offspring, while paternal half-siblings also indicate serial monogamy or polygyny. |
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spelling | pubmed-97947292022-12-29 Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa Oliart, Camila Rihuete-Herrada, Cristina Rohrlach, Adam B. Fregeiro, María Inés Childebayeva, Ainash Ringbauer, Harald Olalde, Iñigo Celdrán Beltrán, Eva Puello-Mora, Catherine Valério, Miguel Krause, Johannes Lull, Vicente Micó, Rafael Risch, Roberto Haak, Wolfgang Sci Rep Article The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary structures, artifacts and techniques indicate times of change with increasing economic asymmetries and political hierarchization. Technological advances in metallurgy also played an important role, facilitating trade and exchange networks, which became tangible in higher levels of mobility and connectedness. Archeogenetic studies have revealed a substantial transformation of the genetic ancestry around this time, ultimately linked to the expansion of steppe- and forest steppe pastoralists from Eastern Europe. Evidence for emerging infectious diseases such as Yersinia pestis adds further complexity to these tumultuous and transformative times. The El Argar complex in southern Iberia marks the genetic turnover in southwestern Europe ~ 2200 BCE that accompanies profound changes in the socio-economic structure of the region. To answer the question of who was buried in the emblematic double burials of the El Argar site La Almoloya, we integrated results from biological relatedness analyses and archaeological funerary contexts and refined radiocarbon-based chronologies from 68 individuals. We find that the El Argar society was virilocally and patrilineally organized and practiced reciprocal female exogamy, supported by pedigrees that extend up to five generations along the paternal line. Synchronously dated adult males and females from double tombs were found to be unrelated mating partners, whereby the incoming females reflect socio-political alliances among El Argar groups. In three cases these unions had common offspring, while paternal half-siblings also indicate serial monogamy or polygyny. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9794729/ /pubmed/36575206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25975-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Villalba-Mouco, Vanessa Oliart, Camila Rihuete-Herrada, Cristina Rohrlach, Adam B. Fregeiro, María Inés Childebayeva, Ainash Ringbauer, Harald Olalde, Iñigo Celdrán Beltrán, Eva Puello-Mora, Catherine Valério, Miguel Krause, Johannes Lull, Vicente Micó, Rafael Risch, Roberto Haak, Wolfgang Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia |
title | Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia |
title_full | Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia |
title_fullStr | Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia |
title_full_unstemmed | Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia |
title_short | Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia |
title_sort | kinship practices in the early state el argar society from bronze age iberia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9794729/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36575206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25975-9 |
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