Cartography of the Early Neolithic bead-type configuration.

<p>A) Large-scale diffusion of exclusively Neolithic ornament types; B) Diversification of Early Neolithic ornament types; C) Persistence of Mesolithic bead-types in the Neolithic; D) Emergences of new bead types at regional scale. Dotted black lines indicate the major shifts in bead-type associations in South East Europe. Dotted orange ellipses show the two areas where numerous new bead-types were adopted during the end of the Early Neolithic. Color shaded areas indicate the geographic distribution of the MEN (pink), DEN (green) and BEN (blue) archaeological cultures considered in the analysis. Maps were made by S.R. by using ArcGIS 9.3.1 software. Some bead types were redrawn from [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0121166#pone.0121166.ref064" target="_blank">64</a>–<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0121166#pone.0121166.ref067" target="_blank">67</a>].