Societies in transition during the expansion and consolidation of the first farming communities in the Western Mediterranean: the Levant of the Iberian peninsula as an example

The neolithisation has been understood as a process of adoption of technological and economic innovations by groups of hunter-gatherers that, brought from outside through a demic diffusion or through exchange networks, were finally assimilated. However, neolithisation has not been considered from the perspective of the of two types of socioeconomic formations with diverse level of organisation and development. In this paper, we analyse and compare the variables that shape the essential features of both social realities, in order to analyse posible contact situations through a concrete example.