References
- Achilli A, Olivieri A, Pellecchia M, Uboldi C, Colli L, Al-Zahery N, Accetturo M, Pala M, Kashani BH, Perego UA, Battaglia V, Fornarino S, Kalamati J, Houshmand M, Negrini R, Semino O, Richards M, Macaulay V, Ferretti L, Bandelt HJ, Ajmone-Marsan P, Torroni A. 2008. Mitochondrial genomes of extinct aurochs survive in domestic cattle. Curr Biol 18:157–158.
- Ammerman AJ, Cavalli-Sforza LL. 1984. The Neolithic transition and the genetics of populations in Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Beja-Pereira A, Caramelli D, Lalueza-Fox C, Vernesi C, Ferrand N, Casoli A, Goyache F, Royo LJ, Conti S, Lari M, Martini A, Ouragh L, Magid A, Atash A, Zsolnai A, Boscato P, Triantaphylidis C, Ploumi K, Sineo L, Mallegni F, Taberlet P, Erhardt G, Sampietro L, Bertranpetit J, Barbujani G, Luikart G, Bertorelle G. 2006. The origin of European cattle: Evidence from modern and ancient DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:8113–8118.
- Bentley RA, Price TD, Stephan E. 2004. Determining the ‘local’ 87Sr/86Sr range for archaeological skeletons: A case study from Neolithic Europe. J Archaeol Sci 21:365–375.
- Bollongino R, Edwards CJ, Alt KW, Burger J, Bradley DG. 2006. Early history of European domestic cattle as revealed by ancient DNA. Biol Lett 2:155–159.
- Bramanti B, Thomas MG, Haak W, Unterlaender M, Jores P, Tambets K, Antanaitis-Jacobs I, Haidle MN, Jankauskas R, Kind CJ, Lueth F, Terberger T, Hiller J, Matsumura S, Forster P, Burger J. 2009. Genetic discontinuity between local hunter–gatherers and central Europe's first farmers. Science 326:137–140.
- Brown TA. 1999. How ancient DNA may help in understanding the origin and spread of agriculture. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 354:89–97.
- Currat M, Excoffier L. 2005. The effect of the Neolithic expansion on European molecular diversity. Proc Biol Sci 272:679–688.
- Haak W, Forster P, Bramanti B, Matsumura S, Brandt G, Tänzer M, Villems R, Renfrew C, Gronenborn D, Alt KW, Burger J. 2005. Ancient DNA from the first European farmers in 7500-year-old Neolithic sites. Science 310:1016–1018.
- Loftus RT, MacHugh DE, Bradley DG, Sharp PM, Cunningham P. 1994. Evidence for two independent domestications of cattle. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91:2757–2761.
- Milner N, Craig OE, Bailey GN, Pedersen K, Andersen SH. 2004. Something fishy in the Neolithic? A re-evaluation of stable isotope analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic coastal populations. Antiquity 78:9–22.
- Richards MP, Hedges REM. 1999. Stable isotope evidence for similarities in the types of marine foods used by late mesolithic humans at sites along the Atlantic coast of Europe. J Archaeol Sci 26:717–722.
- Richards MP, Schulting RJ, Hedges RE. 2003. Archaeology: Sharp shift in diet at onset of Neolithic. Nature 425:366.
- Tarsi T, Noto F, Martinez-Labarga C, Giampaolo R, Babalini C, Scano G, Contini I, Lorente JA, Lorente M, Pacciani E, Silvestrini M, Del Lucchese A, Maggi R, Lattanzi E, Formicola V, Mallegni F, Martini F, Rickards O. 2006. Ricostruzione della storia genetica per via materna delle comunità paleolitiche dei Balzi Rossi, delle Arene Candide e del Romito, e di quelle neolitiche ed eneolitiche di Samari e di Fontenoce di Recanati. In: Martini F, a cura di. La cultura del morire, origines, progetti, III. Florence: Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, pp. 315–346.
- Torroni A, Achilli A, Macaulay V, Richards M, Bandelt HJ. 2006. Harvesting the fruit of the human mtDNA tree. Trends Genet 22:339–345.
- Troy CS, MacHugh DE, Bailey JF, Magee DA, Loftus RT, Cunningham P, Chamberlain AT, Sykes BC, Bradley DG. 2001. Genetic evidence for Near-Eastern origins of European cattle. Nature 410:1088–1091.
- Zilhão J. 2001. Radiocarbon evidence for maritime pioneer colonization at the origins of farming in west Mediterranean Europe. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:14180–14185.