Modeling the role of voyaging in the coastal spread of the Early Neolithic in the West Mediterranean

N Isern, J Zilhão, J Fort… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The earliest dates for the West Mediterranean Neolithic indicate that it expanded across
2,500 km in about 300 y. Such a fast spread is held to be mainly due to a demic process …

Synthesis between demic and cultural diffusion in the Neolithic transition in Europe

J Fort - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

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

J Fort - Journal of the Royal Society interface, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Neolithic transition is the shift from hunting–gathering into farming. About 9000 years
ago, the Neolithic transition began to spread from the Near East into Europe, until it reached …

[BOOK][B] Integrodifference equations in spatial ecology

F Lutscher - 2019 - Springer
Ecosystems are marvelous assemblages of individuals that grow, reproduce, interact with
one another, move about in space, and eventually die. Ecosystems also provide essential …

The Neolithic transition in the Iberian Peninsula: data analysis and modeling

N Isern, J Fort, AF Carvalho, JF Gibaja… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2014 - Springer
We apply GIS techniques to analyze a carefully selected database of 93 Early Neolithic sites
in the Iberian Peninsula. This allows us to study the spatial dynamics of the Neolithic …

Dispersal distances and cultural effects in the spread of the Neolithic along the northern Mediterranean coast

J Fort - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2022 - Springer
We estimate a spread rate of 7.5–10.6 km/year for the Neolithic expansion along the
northern shore of the western Mediterranean. Comparing to theory and numerical …

Interbreeding between farmers and hunter-gatherers along the inland and Mediterranean routes of Neolithic spread in Europe

J Fort, J Pérez-Losada - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The Neolithic (ie, farming and stockbreeding) spread from the Near East across Europe
since about 9000 years before the common era (BCE) until about 4000 yr BCE. It followed …

Modelling the Neolithic transition in the Near East and Europe

J Fort, T Pujol, M Vander Linden - American Antiquity, 2012 - cambridge.org
For the Neolithic transition in the Near East and Europe, this paper compares the isochrones
predicted by computational models to those obtained by interpolating the archaeological …

[HTML][HTML] The spread of domesticated rice in eastern and southeastern Asia was mainly demic

JM Cobo, J Fort, N Isern - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2019 - Elsevier
The Neolithic transition, ie, the shift from hunting and gathering into farming, had a major
impact in many aspects of human societies, from economics to demography and from health …

The ancient cline of haplogroup K implies that the Neolithic transition in Europe was mainly demic

N Isern, J Fort, VL de Rioja - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Using a database with the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 513 Neolithic individuals, we
quantify the space-time variation of the frequency of haplogroup K, previously proposed as a …