About the Authors

Neus Isern

Neus.Isern@uab.cat

Affiliation Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Joaquim Fort

Affiliation Complex Systems Lab, Departament de Física, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Catalonia, Spain

Marc Vander Linden

Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: NI. Assembled the Neolithic database: MVL. Devised the model: NI JF. Did the computations: NI. Made suggestions: JF MVL..