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Cultural hybridization
The formation of new practices and identities through sustained interaction among local and incoming populations.
Review and provenance
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Research description
Hybridization is not synonymous with peaceful contact, colonization, conquest, or population replacement. It records the mixed outcome visible in material culture and, where available, biological evidence.
Evidence and sources
- informs · defines and supports case
Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization? — Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008)
Locator: Cyprus c. 1200-1000 BCE - informs · supports biological admixture case
Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines — Michal Feldman, Daniel M. Master, Raffaela A. Bianco, Marta Burri, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Alissa Mittnik, Adam J. Aja, Choongwon Jeong, Johannes Krause (2019)
Locator: Ashkelon genomic time series