Potential interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers in the Western Mediterranean: The geochronological data revisited
Fig 6
Example of a “musical chairs” scenario.
Example of a “musical chairs” scenario: The last Mesolithic occupations disappeared less than 100 years before the first Neolithic settlements, or coexisted more than 50 miles (ca. 80 km) from each other, making the hypothesis of regular contact unlikely and suggesting rapid succession. Red dots: Neolithic occupations; blue triangles: Mesolithic occupations. Countries boundaries are from Natural Earth (free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com).