Dispersal distances and cultural effects in the spread of the Neolithic along the northern Mediterranean coast
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2022-07-26T07:42:43Z
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2022-07-26T07:42:43Z
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2022-07-22
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1866-9557
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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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Open Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC
agreement with Springer Nature. This work was partially funded by
MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (grant PID2019-104585 GB-I00) and the Institució Catalana d'Estudis Avançats (ICREA Academia
Grant 2022–2026)
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eng
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-104585GB-I00/ES/ONDAS DE AVANCE BAJO DIFUSION DEMICA Y CULTURAL: MODELOS FISICOS DE PROPAGACION NEOLITICA/
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Reproducció digital del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01619-x
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Archaeological And Anthropological Sciences, 2022, vol. 14, art.núm. 153
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Reconeixement 4.0 Internacional
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Fort, Joaquim 2022 Dispersal distances and cultural effects in the spread of the Neolithic along the northern Mediterranean coast Archaeological And Anthropological Sciences 14 art.núm. 153
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Dispersal distances and cultural effects in the spread of the Neolithic along the northern Mediterranean coast
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035517
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peer-reviewed
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1866-9565