Craniometric data support a mosaic model of demic and cultural neolithic diffusion to outlying regions of Europe

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1720, 2011, Pages 2874-2880

  von Cramon Taubadel, Noreen ^a   Pinhasi, Ron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Craniometrics; Cultural diffusion; Demic diffusion; Demography; Neolithic transition

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CRANIUM; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; FARMERS ATTITUDE; FARMING SYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HUNTER-GATHERER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEOLITHIC;

ASIA; CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 80052246122     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2678     Document Type: Article

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