Pavel Mirea

TL;DR: It is shown that southeastern Europe continued to be a nexus between east and west after the arrival of farmers, with intermittent genetic contact with steppe populations occurring up to 2,000 years earlier than the migrations from the steppe that ultimately replaced much of the population of northern Europe.

TL;DR: It is shown that southeastern Europe continued to be a nexus between East and West, with intermittent steppe ancestry, including in individuals from the Varna I cemetery and associated with the Cucuteni-Trypillian archaeological complex, up to 2,000 years before the Steppe migration that replaced much of northern Europe’s population.

TL;DR: Claims that the first domestic pigs in Romania possessed the same mtDNA signatures found in Neolithic pigs in west and central Anatolia are substantiated and a turnover in mitochondrial lineages found in domestic pigs is confirmed, possibly coincident with human migration into Anatolia and the Levant that occurred in later prehistory.

TL;DR: Results from bone collagen analysis indicate extensive herding strategies for cattle and pigs, and sequential analysis in tooth enamel also provides evidence for winter leaf foddering in one bovine, potentially kept by the settlement over winter.