Dispersal distances and cultural effects in the spread of the Neolithic along the northern Mediterranean coast
We estimate a spread rate of 7.5-10.6 km/year for the Neolithic expansion along the northern shore of the western Mediterranean. Comparing to theory and numerical simulations of demic-cultural waves of advance, we find that the length of coastal jumps was 240 ≤ Δ ≤ 427 km. We also derive what we bel...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:10256/21439 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10256/21439 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Neolític -- Models matemàtics Neolithic period -- Mathematical models Difusió cultural -- Models matemàtics Culture diffusion -- Mathematical models |
| Sumario: | We estimate a spread rate of 7.5-10.6 km/year for the Neolithic expansion along the northern shore of the western Mediterranean. Comparing to theory and numerical simulations of demic-cultural waves of advance, we find that the length of coastal jumps was 240 ≤ Δ ≤ 427 km. We also derive what we believe are the first analytical equations for spread rates of waves of advance along a coast, and they agree with the simulation results. We show that the importance of cultural diffusion in this Neolithic spread was less than 21%, so demic diffusion was responsible for at least 79% of the observed spread rate. We argue that these results suggest that the spread took place using boats, and also a limited interaction between the incoming farmers and the autochthonous hunter-gatherers |
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