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

Another try to SPD's analysis resulted in this unlikely cat
(dates simulated in oxcAAR package for R)
#archaeology #Rstats #Eneolithic