Cultural and demic diffusion of first farmers, herders,and their innovations across Eurasia

Abstract

Was the spread of agro-pastoralism from the Eurasian founder regions dominated by demic or by cultural diffusion? This study employs simulations that unfold a complex inter-regional and time varying pattern of demic and diffusive exchange processes during the Neolithisation, and thus supports from a modelling perspective the hypothesis that there is no simple or exclusive demic or cultural diffusion, but that in most regions of Eurasia a combination of demic and cultural processes were important.Je bila pri širitvi kmetijstva iz evrazijskih jedrnih območij pomembnejša demska ali morda kulturna difuzija? V študiji uporabimo simulacijo, ki proces neolitizacije modelira kot kompleksne medregionalne in časovne vzorce demske difuzije in širitve skozi menjave. Model pokaže, da ni preproste in izključujoče razlage, bodisi demske ali kulturne difuzije; v večini evrazijskih regij je bila na delu kombinacija demskih in kulturnih procesov