2017/02/22 by Carsten Lemmen, Detlef Gronenborn
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Agriculture #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Biology #Business #Computer science #Context (archaeology) #Diffusion #Ecology #Economic geography #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Fick's laws of diffusion #Geography #Knowledge management #Language and cultural evolution #Novelty #Physics #Psychology #Social psychology #q-bio.PE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67798-9_17
published as In: Bunde A., Caro J., Kärger J., Vogl G. (eds) Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society. Springer, Cham · 20 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society, edited by Armin Bunde, Jürgen Caro, Jörg Kärger, Gero Vogl, Chapter 17
arxiv created 2017/02/22 · openalex created_date 2017/03/16 · openalex publication_date 2017/12/23 · arxiv updated 2018/05/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The spread of farming into Europe some 9000–5000 years ago involved not only the advent of new plants and animals, but also of people, tools, technologies, and knowledge. While they all can be assumed to follow Fickian diffusion gradients, the mechanisms of spread can be quite different: when people migrate, there is mass balance in the number of people, but not in the knowledge and technologies brought along. Tools, plants and animals could also travel by trade, knowledge and technology by communication; there might even be local resistance to adoption of novelty. This chapter discusses these different diffusion mechanisms in the context of numerical trait- and agent-based socio-environmental modeling of the spread of farming.