Population expansion in the western Pacific (Austronesia): a wave of advance model

• Autores: Joaquim Font
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 77, Nº 297, 2003, págs. 520-530
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The author reconsiders the ‘wave of advance model’ used to describe (and partly explain) the rate at which people adopted farming. It is usually applied to large open areas, where one population group can easily see or meet another – but the populations considered here live on islands. Joaquim Fort finds that the 5000 km extent of the South Pacific was settled in the Neolithic period at a rate of at least 8 km per year.