THE SPREAD of FARMING ECONOMY in the WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN: A SHORT REPLY to AMMERMAN (2021)

Abstract

Manen et al. provide here a reply to the critical comment published by A. J. Ammerman regarding their article The Neolithic Transition in the Western Mediterranean: a complex and non-linear diffusion process - the radiocarbon record revisited, published in 2019 in Radiocarbon. They also use this occasion to reaffirm the need to elaborate novel interpretive frameworks that combine both geo-chronological and cultural data.