Dispersal distances and cultural effects in the spread of the Neolithic along the northern Mediterranean coast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5415799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Fort (0000-0003-2647-8558, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1866-9557 • E-ISSN: 1866-9565 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12520-022-01619-x |
| OpenAlex | W4286433205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 67 |
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 $$240\le \Delta \le 427$$ 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
Archaeology · Biological dispersal · Diffusion · Geography · Mediterranean climate · Mediterranean sea · Physical geography · Physics · Shore · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Geology · Oceanography
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |