The issues of the Neolithisation process in the eastern Adriatic over the past 30 years have involved the work of many researchers who have expressed their opinions through a series of papers, thus attempting to better capture the early Neolithic of the area. There are essentially no defined models or processes of neolithisation in the eastern Adriatic area, but some researchers have offered their solutions when considering the process of neolithisation of the eastern Adriatic. Authors such as Šime Batović, Alojz Benc, Brunislav Marijanović and Mihael Budja advocate a model of neolithisation across the indigenous Mesolithic substrate, but do not rule out minor contacts between communities in which the indigenous substrate plays a greater role than diffusion. Some authors such as Stašo Forenbaher, Timothy Kaiser and Preston Miracle see the emergence of cultigens and domesticates on the Adriatic coast by arguing that the process was brought with them by the first farmers on their vessels when they entered through the Otran Gate and spread further northwest.