Sep 09 2009
Europe’s First Farmers Came from Afar: New Clues Shed Light on Genetic Ancestry of Modern Europeans
About 10,000 years ago, the prehistoric hunter-gatherers of Europe began meeting some new neighbors.
These farmers spread gradually at first, expanding from the Near East through Anatolia and the Balkans. Then agriculture exploded, reaching present-day Britain within a few thousand years. The farmers settled into houses, which soon evolved into villages, towns and eventually cities.
The archaeological [...]
