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Bosniensis
11-12-2017, 12:16 AM
Ancient Slavs, were they a Farmers or Hunter Gatherers?

Can anyone (who knows) explain this a bit?

Token
11-12-2017, 12:18 AM
They were mobile Herder-Farmers, like every Indo-European people.

Linebacker
11-12-2017, 01:56 AM
As any Bronze Age population in Europe excluding the invading Huns,early Slavs had a farmer and herder lifestyle.

The genetics of Slavs are not Neolithic Farmer however,but with Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherer roots,and for Balkan I2 Slavs even Upper Paleolithic.

ЛыSSый
11-12-2017, 02:19 AM
both

Voskos
11-13-2017, 01:06 PM
HG(I2) + Steppe(R1a)+ minor farmer(G,J2,E-V13)

Vlatko Vukovic
11-13-2017, 01:11 PM
Some sources say farmers, some hunter gathererers.

Peterski
11-13-2017, 11:23 PM
Ancient Slavs, were they a Farmers or Hunter Gatherers?

Can anyone (who knows) explain this a bit?

Culturally expert farmers but with a lot of hunter-gatherer genes:

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?227111-Early-Slavic-invention-which-revolutionized-the-world