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From: Gary Felix <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] an unexpected haplogroup result
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:53:29 -0800 (PST)
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Rebekah,
this would be more of a characteristic of a hunter gatherer. Farmers tended to stay put.

Jobling has a map of "the distributions of the earliest archaeological sites in Europe and the Middle East showing evidence of agriculture" (from his book Human Evolutionary Genetics). "The oldest sites are in the Fertile Cresent 10000 YA. Sites become consistently younger toward toward the northwest of europe with agricultural practices arriving at the Baltic and the British Isles between 5500 and 4200 YA".

The type of exploration your describing came later with the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations.

Gary
Mexico DNA Project Admin.

wrote:
Then the Neolithic was devoid of pioneers who moved on simply because the next hill was there? How do we know this? What are the archaeological signs?

Rebekah

-------------- Original message from Gary Felix : --------------


> The Neolithic had domesticated wheat, barley, lentil, chickpea, large seeded
> grasses, Sheep, Goats, Cows, Pigs and Horses. These resources were unknown in
> the rest of the world. This was the breadbasket of the world 8K ybp.
> The Neolithic would have only moved when things got too crowded and only to
> places where they could maintain their lifestyle. It would take long term
> domestication to get their crops to grow in different climes.
>
> Eventually those that brought these resources to the rest of the world would
> be the conquerors.
>
> Gary
> Mexico DNA Project Admin.


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