Neolithic transition

Lubell, D., Jackes, M., Schwarcz, H., Knyf, M. and Meiklejohn, C. 1994 The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Portugal isotopic and dental evidence oiAiA.Journal of Archaeological Science 21 201-216. 

Noe-Nygaard, N. 1988 8 C values of dog bones reveal the nature of changes in man s food resources at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. Isotope Geoscience 73 87-96. 

Schulting, R.J. and Richards, M.P. (2002). The wet, the wild and the domesticated the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition on the west coast of Scotland. European Journal of Archaeology 5 147-189. 

If there exists only a unique maturation age r, then f a) = S a — r). Assuming that b w) = we we recover Nicholson s equation. Recently, a model consisting of two subpopulations, mature and immature, with an age-dependent disperser-nondisperser transition has been studied analytically and applied to the Neolithic transition in Europe. This model shows good agreement with observational data [292]. This example will be analyzed in detail in Chapter 7. 

In order to obtain numerical predictions from (7.11), we need values for the parameters appropriate to the Neolithic transition. As explained in Sect. 7.1.1, such values have been obtained from independent observations of the Neolithic expansion and their mean values are rj = 0.032 yr , D = 15.44 km /yr, and tj = T/2 = 12.5 yr. The latter value follows from the mean generation time T = 25 yr. On... 

Despite the interest in the establishment of farming communities in Europe during the Neolithic transition, there are few models explaining the spatial pattern formed behind the wave of advance. We present a model [124] that provides an explanation for the formation of human settlements and the tendency of the population distribution to form clusters. We show that this large-scale pattern is a transient phenomenon which disappears as an extinction wave due to land degradation. 

Table 7.1 Observational data for the Neolithic transition in Europe. Reprinted from [292]. Copyright 2006, with permission from Elsevier...

Ammerman, A.J., Cavalli-Sforza, L.L. The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe. Princeton University Press, Princeton (1984)... 

Fedotov, S., Moss, D., Ctimpos, D. Stochastic model for population migration and the growth of human settlements during the Neolithic transition. Phys. Rev. E 78(2), 026107 (2008). http //link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v78/e026107... 

Evershed, R.P. (2007) Exploiting molecular and isotopic signals at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. Proceedings of the British Academy, 144,141-164. 

Figure 7.1 Map of the world showing historical centers of Neolithic transition, its spread, and with it birth piaces of civiiization. (Adapted from Ref. 58.)...

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