05-13-2022
Study sheds new light on the origins of the first farmersIt's been long believed that the first farmers originated 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent in the Near East. Still, researchers were not sure whether Europe's first farmers migrated from the Fertile Crescent or learned it through cultural dissemination. While previous research implied that Europe's farmers came from hunter-gatherers in Anatolia, a new study led by the University of Bern suggests that farming did not come from a single region. Earlier studies indicated that the first agriculturalists were genetically different from other human groups. However, this...
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