Farming In Stone Age Europe Arrived With Immigrants

Monday, February 11, 2013 - 18:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Europeans may not like immigrants from the east now, but that is where Stone Age Europe got its agriculture, and thus an origin of Western civilization, according to new data resulting from a study of the teeth of prehistoric farmers and the hunter-gatherers with whom they briefly overlapped. Agriculture was introduced to Central Europe from the Near East by colonizers who brought farming technology with them. read more

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