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The spread of the economy of production in the Western Mediterranean occurred during a cultural context that was extremely different to the one existing in the zone where Neolithization was born, the Turco-Syrian borders, where PPNB, the truly founding culture of the Neolithic, seems to have emerged. Here, we focus our attention on the spread of the Neolithic from the Levant to the Central Mediterranean, paying special attention to recent studies carried out on the Anatolian diffusion and the spread towards the island of Cyprus, the Aegean area, and Southern Italy.
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Guilaine, J. (2017). The Neolithic Transition: From the Eastern to the Western Mediterranean. In: García-Puchol, O., Salazar-García, D. (eds) Times of Neolithic Transition along the Western Mediterranean. Fundamental Issues in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52939-4_2
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