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Gene-flows and social processes: The potential of genetics and archaeology
Documenta Praehistorica, 2006 During the past four decades, genetic information has played an increasingly important part in the study of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe.
Julian Thomas
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Synthesis between demic and cultural diffusion in the Neolithic transition in Europe [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 There is a long-standing controversy between two models of the Neolithic transition. The demic model assumes that the Neolithic range expansion was mainly due to the spread of populations, and the cultural model considers that it was essentially due to the spread of ideas. Here we integrate the demic and cultural models in a unified framework.
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Assessing the importance of cultural diffusion in the Bantu spread into southeastern Africa.
PLoS ONE, 2019 The subsistence of Neolithic populations is based on agriculture, whereas that of previous populations was based on hunting and gathering. Neolithic spreads due to dispersal of populations are called demic, and those due to the incorporation of hunter ...
Neus Isern, Joaquim Fort
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Velocity and hierarchical spread of epidemic outbreaks in scale-free networks [PDF]
, 2004 We study the effect of the connectivity pattern of complex networks on the propagation dynamics of epidemics. The growth time scale of outbreaks is inversely proportional to the network degree fluctuations, signaling that epidemics spread almost ...
Alain Barrat +9 more
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2006 In Eurasia the invention of ceramic technology and production of fired-clay vessels has not necessarily been related to the dynamics of the transition to farming.
Mihael Budja
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Seals, contracts and tokens in the Balkans Early Neolithic: where in the puzzle
Documenta Praehistorica, 2003 Paper discusses Early Neolithic seals, contracts and tokens in the context of Neolithization processes in southeastern Europe. Paper analyses the assemblages, contexts and the patterns of regional and interregional distributions.
Mihael Budja
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The dispersal of Austronesian languages in Island South East Asia: Current findings and debates
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 13, Issue 4, April 2019., 2019 Abstract This paper reviews the “standard” view of the Austronesian language family tree in connection with the archeological “farming/language dispersal” hypothesis of Neolithic populations moving into Island South East Asia (ISEA) and beyond. It focuses on what is currently known about the dispersal history of the ~650 languages spoken in ISEA ...
Marian Klamer
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Craniometric data support a mosaic model of demic and cultural Neolithic diffusion to outlying regions of Europe [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011 The extent to which the transition to agriculture in Europe was the result of biological (demic) diffusion from the Near East or the adoption of farming practices by indigenous hunter–gatherers is subject to continuing debate. Thus far, archaeological study and the analysis of modern and ancient European DNA have yielded inconclusive results regarding ...
Noreen, von Cramon-Taubadel +1 more
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Transition to farming – transition to milk culture: a case study from Mala Triglavca, Slovenia
Documenta Praehistorica, 2013 In this paper, we discuss the transition to milk culture. While archaeological and biochemical data suggest that dairying was adopted in the Neolithic in Europe, archaeogenetic data show the absence of the allelic variant –13 910*T and very low lactase ...
Mihael Budja +5 more
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Process‐based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 26, Issue 5, Page 584-591, May 2017., 2017 Abstract Aim Two fundamental questions about human language demand answers: why are so many languages spoken today and why is their geographical distribution so uneven? Although hypotheses have been proposed for centuries, the processes that determine patterns of linguistic and cultural diversity remain poorly understood. Previous studies, which relied
Michael C. Gavin +11 more
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