farmers Archive

How Early Farmers In Scandinavia Overcame Climate Change

AncientPages.com | December 19, 2023

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - As the world faces the challenges of present-day climate change, scientific inquiry is, among other objectives, exploring how human societies navigate environmental variations at

Archaeology

Hunter-Gatherer Genes Helped Early European Farmers Survive Disease – New Study

AncientPages.com | March 24, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com- When early Stone Age farmers first moved into Europe from the Near East about 8,000 years ago, they met and began mixing with the

Archaeology

Neolithic Farmers Invented Methods To Fight Pests 8,000 Years Ago

AncientPages.com | June 30, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As early as the Neolithic period, pests posed a threat to agricultural yields, as shown by the remains of mice and insects found

Knap of Howar, Orkney. Image via SpottingHistory.com

The Knap Of Howar: One Of The Oldest And Well-Preserved Neolithic Complexes Orkney, Scotland

AncientPages.com | March 2, 2017

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A Neolithic standing farmhouse - believed to be one of the oldest in northern Europe – is located on one of Orkney’s smaller isles, Papa

Kumtepe år 1994. Foto: Project Troia, Peter Jablonka.

Archaeology

Early European Farmers Traced To Anatolia, DNA Study Shows

AncientPages.com | January 5, 2016

AncientPages.com - An international study based on DNA from Anatolian remains and coordinated from Stockholm shows importance of the role Anatolia played, when farming spread throughout Europe some 8000

Researchers had noticed that people from southern Europe tend to be shorter than those from northern Europe. The new study suggests that the height differential arises both from people in the north having more ancestry from Eurasian steppe populations, who seem to have been taller, and people in the south having more ancestry from Neolithic and Chalcolithic groups from the Iberian peninsula, who seem to have been shorter.

Archaeology

DNA Study Reveals How Europe’s Hunter-Gatherers Adapted To A New Way Of Life – Farming

AncientPages.com | November 24, 2015

AncientPages.com - The introduction of agriculture into Europe about 8,500 years ago changed the way people lived right down to their DNA. Now, an international team reports in Nature that researchers