Cultural and demic diffusion of first farmers, herders,and their innovations across Eurasia [PDF]
Documenta Praehistorica, 2015 Was the spread of agro-pastoralism from the Eurasian founder regions dominated by demic or by cultural diffusion? This study employs simulations that unfold a complex inter-regional and time varying pattern of demic and diffusive exchange processes ...
Carsten Lemmen
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Craniometric data supports demic diffusion model for the spread of agriculture into Europe. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 BACKGROUND:The spread of agriculture into Europe and the ancestry of the first European farmers have been subjects of debate and controversy among geneticists, archaeologists, linguists and anthropologists. Debates have centred on the extent to which the
Ron Pinhasi, Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel
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Archaeological expansions in tropical South America during the late Holocene: Assessing the role of demic diffusion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Human expansions motivated by the spread of farming are one of the most important processes that shaped cultural geographies during the Holocene. The best known example of this phenomenon is the Neolithic expansion in Europe, but parallels in other parts
Jonas Gregorio de Souza +2 more
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A comparison of Y-chromosome variation in Sardinia and Anatolia is more consistent with cultural rather than demic diffusion of agriculture. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Two alternative models have been proposed to explain the spread of agriculture in Europe during the Neolithic period. The demic diffusion model postulates the spreading of farmers from the Middle East along a Southeast to Northeast axis.
Laura Morelli +5 more
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Environmental effects on the spread of the Neolithic crop package to South Asia [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 The emergence of Neolithic economies and their spread through Eurasia was one of the most crucial transitions of the Holocene, with different mechanisms of diffusion—demic, cultural—being proposed.
Jonas Gregorio de Souza +3 more
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Modeling the European Neolithic expansion suggests predominant within-group mating and limited cultural transmission [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe Neolithic Revolution initiated a pivotal change in human society, marking the shift from foraging to farming. Historically, the underlying mechanisms of agricultural expansion have been a topic of debate, centered around two primary models: cultural ...
Troy M. LaPolice +2 more
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The demic expansion of Yangshao culture inferred from ancient human genomes [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground Originating from the middle Yellow River, Yangshao culture is one of the most influential archaeological cultures in Neolithic China. It has long been debated whether there was a genetic substructure between the core Yangshao sites and those ...
Lei Sun +6 more
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Reconstructing the genetic formation of Han Chinese from ancient genomes [PDF]
BMC BiologyBackground The formation of the Han Chinese is deeply rooted in the Neolithic cultures of the Yellow River basin, particularly the pivotal Longshan cultural sphere which bridged prehistoric societies and early dynastic civilization.
Limin Qiu +23 more
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Inferring language dispersal patterns with velocity field estimation [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsReconstructing the spatial evolution of languages can deepen our understanding of the demic diffusion and cultural spread. However, the phylogeographic approach that is frequently used to infer language dispersal patterns has limitations, primarily ...
Sizhe Yang +3 more
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The genomic history of East Asian Middle Neolithic millet- and rice-agricultural populations [PDF]
Cell GenomicsSummary: The Yellow and Yangtze river basins in China are among the world’s oldest independent agricultural centers, known for the domestication of millet and rice, respectively, yet their genetic history is poorly understood.
Jianxue Xiong +40 more
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