Earliest farming site in Europe found in Albania

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DNA study finds invaders first farmed Europe
Updated Wed 10 Nov 2010, 1:59pm AEDT



A team of international researchers led by ancient DNA experts from Adelaide University have traced the origins of the people who introduced farming to Europe about 8,000 years ago.

The first farming communities were invaders from what is now Turkey rather than from the hunter gatherers around Germany, as earlier thought.

Researcher Dr Wolfgang Haak says a detailed genetic picture has been developed of the farming population and it reveals radical differences from the nomadic populations already present.

"We have finally resolved the question of who the first farmers in Europe were; invaders with revolutionary new ideas, rather than populations of Stone Age hunter-gatherers who already existed in the area," he said.

He said the potential route the invaders took has been worked out.

"We have also been able to use genetic signatures to identify a potential route from the Near East and Anatolia, where farming evolved around 11,000 years ago, via south-eastern Europe and the Carpathian Basin (now Hungary) into central Europe," he explained.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-11-1...europe/2331462

Wait, they don't give any actual evidence here, they just say it's the case.

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The problem here is that the farming in central europe they are looking at has DNA that's very mixed up and is in a time frame where it's known farming from sea route had long since made it to europe.

[Kalimtari]

Wait, they don't give any actual evidence here, they just say it's the case.

it's just a news article, study should be published in scientific data base.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

Checked into it and earliest farming sites are still about 9000-9500 BC. So it's closer to origin than they imply - it's not just (one of) earliest in europe but one of very earliest, period.

[Kalimtari]

The problem here is that the farming in central europe they are looking at has DNA that's very mixed up and is in a time frame where it's known farming from sea route had long since made it to europe.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6080/466

check the "full text" option

[justme]

really, i would think just opposite, werent you hiding on mountains as shepards, with no agricultural skills at all until more recent times.

As i know of, that is how you explain your survival in Balkans, LOL

Dear Stupid Brain
Lol! You are really dumb.
Sencerely Smart Brain

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People 10k years ago or more are not likely too much to do with current people. Even in 1000 years things change a lot.