Human dispersals: mathematical models and the archaeological record

J Steele - Human Biology, 2009 - muse.jhu.edu
The theoretical literature on human population dispersal processes at the large time and
space scale is reviewed, including references to and discussions of relevant empirical data …

[КНИГА][B] Reaction-transport systems: mesoscopic foundations, fronts, and spatial instabilities

V Mendez, S Fedotov, W Horsthemke - 2010 - books.google.com
This book is an introduction to the dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems, with a focus on
fronts and stationary spatial patterns. Emphasis is on systems that are non-standard in the …

Trends in archaeological simulation

MW Lake - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2014 - Springer
This paper provides an up-to-date history of archaeological computer simulation, starting
with the early 1970s simulation models, but paying particular attention to those developed …

Socio-hydrologic modeling to understand and mediate the competition for water between agriculture development and environmental health: Murrumbidgee River …

THM Van Emmerik, Z Li, M Sivapalan… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2014 - hess.copernicus.org
Competition for water between humans and ecosystems is set to become a flash point in the
coming decades in many parts of the world. An entirely new and comprehensive quantitative …

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

J Fort - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 - pnas.org
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 …

Understanding the rates of expansion of the farming system in Europe

JP Bocquet-Appel, S Naji, M Vander Linden… - Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
If the overall expansion of the farming system was determined by the Neolithic Demographic
Transition (NDT), ie by demographic pressure, what determined the rate of expansion? What …

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

JB Aubán, CM Barton, SP Gordó, SM Bergin - Ecological Modelling, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

Space competition and time delays in human range expansions. Application to the Neolithic transition

N Isern, J Fort, M Vander Linden - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Space competition effects are well-known in many microbiological and ecological systems.
Here we analyze such an effect in human populations. The Neolithic transition (change from …

Interactions in space for archaeological models

TS Evans, RJ Rivers, C Knappett - Advances in Complex Systems, 2012 - World Scientific
In this article, we examine a variety of quantitative models for describing archaeological
networks, with particular emphasis on the maritime networks of the Aegean Middle Bronze …

Density-dependent dispersal and population aggregation patterns

V Méndez, D Campos, I Pagonabarraga… - Journal of theoretical …, 2012 - Elsevier
We have derived reaction–dispersal–aggregation equations from Markovian reaction-
random walks with density-dependent jump rate or density-dependent dispersal kernels …