Monday, February 27, 2012

Human Migration, Cultural Change and the Origins of Farming in Europe


The above is an interesting post to read especially in combination with the posting at
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
and the comments thereto, which show the great variety of opinion as to how to interpret the underlying data correctly.

The citation to the original study is:

Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel and Ron Pinhasi
Craniometric data support a mosaic model of demic and cultural Neolithic diffusion to outlying regions of Europe Proc. R. Soc. B October 7, 2011 278 (1720) 2874-2880; published ahead of print February 23, 2011, doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2678