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Demic Diffusion

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Demic Diffusion
A migratory model regarding the spread of ancient culture—e.g., from Africa, across Europe—which modifies the general diffusion theory, by postulating that farmers advanced at a rate of 1 km/year, assimilating the hunter-gatherer gene pool


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Wiik (1997a; 2002), on the framework of language shift, we were able to draw the following conclusions: 1) Finno-Ugric substrate in Germanic would be highly unlikely in the case of demic diffusion of Indo-European agriculturalists to the territory of Finno-Ugric hunter gatherers, as the social settings would not favour the emergence of a single speech community.
 
 
 
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