Archaeology: What's Hot Now: From Hunting to Farming

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From Hunting to Farming Oct 7th 2011, 10:02 About 6,000 BC, the inhabitants of Europe were Mesolithic hunter-gatherer-fishers, who lived in huts that looked more or less like the reconstructed building illustrated in the photograph. Archaeologists trace the European Mesolithic between the last glacial maximum (ca 10,000 BP) to the beginning of the Neolithic period (ca. 5,000 BP), after farming communities were established. Mesolithic hunter-gatherers excelled at marine animal exploitation, building fish weirs for efficiency, and they hunted a wide range of animals, including wild pig. They were also fond of shellfishâ€"many of the European Mesolithic sites contain enormous shell middens, trash heaps left over from decades of shellfish harvesting. The house illustrated in the photograph is a reconstructed Mesolithic structure from Archeon, a living history/experimental archaeology park in the Netherlands. Sources and Further Information Bramanti, B., et al. 2009 Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers. Science Express 3 September 2009 Haak, Wolfgang, et al. 2005 Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites. Science 310:1016-1018. Transition from Hunting to Farming in Europe, summary of Bramanti et al. 2009 European Mesolithic Ertebølle-Ellerbeck culture Domestication of the Pig Fish Weirs Shell Middens

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