Europe's First Farmers 1 - Europe's Last Hunter/Gatherers 0
Sunday, September 6, 2009 - 09:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
For most of the last century archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and even geneticists have argued about who the ancestors of Europeans living today were. People lived in Europe before and after the last big ice age and managed to survive by hunting and gathering and farming spread into Europe from the Near East over the last 9,000 years, which boosted the amount of food that could be produced by as much as 100-fold. But the extent to which modern Europeans are descended from either of those two groups has eluded scientists. read more