Which Area Of Europe Received Agriculture Last?

[Black Wolf]

Does anyone know which region of Europe received agriculture the very last? I have read that both parts of Iberia and the Baltic area (Lithuania) received agriculture very late compared to other regions of Europe. So does anyone know which region received agriculture the very last?

Oh and PS I am not including the sub-arctic and arctic areas of Europe where the Saami people live.

[Roy]

Finland?

[Sikeliot]

Wherever the West Asian genetic component, and haplogroups J2 and E1b are lowest.

[RussiaPrussia]

probably the UK and Nordic countries starting at the baltic sea

[Roy]

Wherever the West Asian genetic component, and haplogroups J2 and E1b are lowest.


So it means that it could be Finland then.

[Vesuvian Sky]

probably the UK and Nordic countries starting at the baltic sea

No.

UK was Neolithized by c. 4000 BC. See Windmill Hill site for further info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill_Hill,_Avebury

Scandinavia's Neolithization starts are c. 3200 BC with the TRB horizon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_beaker_culture


Its the North Eastern Baltic region that undergoes the slowest most jagged Neolithization process. See Pitted Combed Ware for more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit%E2%80%93Comb_Ware_culture

[Mikula]

What about Iceland?