This is a skeleton page for the Masters Project:
The spread of Neolithic Farming
by
Markus Signitzer
Abstract:
This project tries to model the competing processes involved
in the migration of Neolithic farming techniques: The
displacement of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers by Neolithic
farmers and the adoption of farming by hunter-gatherers. The used
model extends the "wave of advance" - model originally introduced
by Fisher to describe the spread of advantaged genes in
a population. The project investigates the suitability of computer
simulations based on physical principles (Diffusion) to scientific
areas outside physics, by comparing the simulation results with
archeological, linguistic and genetic evidence.
The project report can be found here: Report
The puplication at PNAS can be found here: PNAS puplication
A number of movies (unfortunaltly only in the windown .wmv format) can be viewed/downloded, please follow the links below: