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

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From Hunting to Farming Oct 20th 2011, 10:03 The transition from hunting to farming in central Europe has long been a source of fascination to many archaeologists and others interested in the past. Agricultureâ€"the domestication of both plants such as wheat and barley and animals such as goats and cattleâ€"was invented in the Near East and Southeast Anatolia, about 8500 BC. The movement of these goods over the next three thousand years has been traced into Iran and Iraq, Pakistan and Turkmenistan; the last by about 6000 BC. The plants, animals and the people who brought them arrived in central Europe about 5500 BC, when the culture archaeologists have named Linearbandkeramik (LBK) first appeared in what is today Hungary and Slovakia. One of the most interesting debates about the spread of agriculture into this region was whether the LBK were farmers descended from people from the Fertile Crescent, or European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers who merely adopted the new technology, or a little of both. A new article published in Science Express in September of 2009 addresses this issue. 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 Linearbandkeramik culture LBK Bibliography The Origins of Agriculture in Central Europe: DNA, LBK, and the Origins of Agriculture (summary of Haak et al. 2005) Domestication of Pigs and the LBK

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