Researchers from the Universities of Mainz, Friborg and Bern have gained new insights into the world's first farmers.
Sasha Zoske
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Contrary to what was previously thought, they were apparently not only descended from hunters and gatherers who had immigrated to Europe from Anatolia.
Instead, the first farmers of Anatolia and Europe emerged from a population mix of hunter-gatherers from Europe and the Middle East.
This process began about 14,000 years ago.
According to the Gutenberg University, the new findings were made possible by combining two techniques: the extraction of well-preserved genetic material from skeletons (photo) and the demographic modeling of the resulting data.