Ancient Foragers and Farmers Hit It Off
Perhaps there was peace in the valley, after all. Thousands of years
ago, foragers and early farmers in the Balkans lived in peaceful
coexistence, according to a new study of skeletal remains. But this cozy
picture, which includes cultural exchange and also apparently
intermating, may not apply to the spread of farming everywhere, other
researchers caution.
The
transition from hunting and gathering to farming was one of the most
momentous upheavals in human prehistory. That transition marks the
beginning of the Neolithic period, which started nearly 11,000 years
ago, when people of the Near East domesticated plants and animals and
settled down in sedentary communities with permanent houses. In Europe,
meanwhile, roving foragers of so-called Mesolithic cultures continued to
hunt, fish, and gather wild plants. The Neolithic apparently first
spread from Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) to Greece and the Balkan region
sometime after 8500 years ago. Researchers have long debated what
happened when foragers and farmers came face to face. Did they make war,
make peace, or simply ignore each other?
Read at http://bit.ly/WtpQKF
Ancient Foragers and Farmers Hit It Off
Perhaps there was peace in the valley, after all. Thousands of years ago, foragers and early farmers in the Balkans lived in peaceful coexistence, according to a new study of skeletal remains. But this cozy picture, which includes cultural exchange and also apparently intermating, may not apply to the spread of farming everywhere, other researchers caution.
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming was one of the most momentous upheavals in human prehistory. That transition marks the beginning of the Neolithic period, which started nearly 11,000 years ago, when people of the Near East domesticated plants and animals and settled down in sedentary communities with permanent houses. In Europe, meanwhile, roving foragers of so-called Mesolithic cultures continued to hunt, fish, and gather wild plants. The Neolithic apparently first spread from Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) to Greece and the Balkan region sometime after 8500 years ago. Researchers have long debated what happened when foragers and farmers came face to face. Did they make war, make peace, or simply ignore each other?
Read at http://bit.ly/WtpQKF
Perhaps there was peace in the valley, after all. Thousands of years ago, foragers and early farmers in the Balkans lived in peaceful coexistence, according to a new study of skeletal remains. But this cozy picture, which includes cultural exchange and also apparently intermating, may not apply to the spread of farming everywhere, other researchers caution.
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming was one of the most momentous upheavals in human prehistory. That transition marks the beginning of the Neolithic period, which started nearly 11,000 years ago, when people of the Near East domesticated plants and animals and settled down in sedentary communities with permanent houses. In Europe, meanwhile, roving foragers of so-called Mesolithic cultures continued to hunt, fish, and gather wild plants. The Neolithic apparently first spread from Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) to Greece and the Balkan region sometime after 8500 years ago. Researchers have long debated what happened when foragers and farmers came face to face. Did they make war, make peace, or simply ignore each other?
Read at http://bit.ly/WtpQKF
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