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标题：Synthesis between demic and cultural diffusion in the Neolithic transition in Europe
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作者：Joaquim Fort
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2012
卷号：109
期号：46
页码：18669-18673
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1200662109
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：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. We show that cultural diffusion explains [~]40% of the spread rate of the Neolithic transition in Europe, as implied by archaeological data. Thus, cultural diffusion cannot be neglected, but demic diffusion was the most important mechanism in this major historical process at the continental scale. This quantitative approach can be useful also in regional analysis, the description of Neolithic transitions in other continents, and models of many human spread phenomena.
关键词：fronts ; cultural transmission ; reaction-dispersal ; reaction-diffusion