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2025-11-12 Kin Making in the Past: Reconsidering Spatial Proximity and Genetic Distance... (Cvecek)

Title: Kin Making in the Past: Reconsidering Spatial Proximity and Genetic Distance in Neolithic Southwestern Asia Speaker: Dr. Sabina Cveček, Field Museum & Austrian Academy of Sciences Abstract: Kinship has long been central to anthropological research, yet in archaeological inquiries, it has often been assumed rather than systematically explored. This talk reconsiders the relation between the dwelling spaces, spatial proximity, and genetic distance based on available ancient DNA analysis in the Neolithic of southwestern Asia (6,600–5,000 BC) through the lens of kinship. Drawing on evidence from domestic and mortuary contexts in which genetic relatedness does not necessarily correspond to spatial proximity, I address alternative ways in which persons could become kin. By expanding the concept of kinship within broader frameworks of the more flexible forms of relatedness, this talk will offer new insights into making kin during the Neolithic in southwestern Asia. Ultimately, I show how ethnography and comparison remain crucial for kinship analysis in an archaeological setting to acknowledge not only genetic but also socially constructed relationships in shaping past human communities.