Demic and cultural diffusion propagated the Neolithic transition across different regions of Europe

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 106, 2015, Pages

  Fort, Joaquim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Fronts; Neolithic transition

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ALPINE REGIONS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; CENTRAL EUROPE; CULTURAL MODELS; CULTURAL TRAITS; CULTURAL TRANSMISSION; FRONTS; NEOLITHIC TRANSITION;

FACSIMILE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BLACK SEA; CROATIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EUROPE; EUROPEAN; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; HISTORY; MIGRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALIA;

ACCULTURATION; AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EUROPE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84929483912     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0166     Document Type: Article

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