Modeling initial Neolithic dispersal. The first agricultural groups in West Mediterranean

Joan Bernabeu Aubán, C. Michael Barton, Salvador Pardo Gordó and Sean M. Bergin

Ecological Modelling, 2015, vol. 307, issue C, 22-31

Abstract: In previous research, the SE-NW time-trend in the age of the earliest Neolithic sites across Europe has been treated as a signal of a global-scale process that brought farming/herding economies to the continent. Residual variation from this global time-trend is generally treated as ‘noise’. A Complex Adaptive Systems perspective views this empirical record differently. The apparent time-trend is treated as an emergent consequence of the interactions of individuals and groups of different scale.

Keywords: Neolithic spread; West Mediterranean Neolithic; Agent based models; Socio-ecological modeling; Complex Adaptive Systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.03.015

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