New discovery about European inhabitants in the Stone Age

According to studies by European and Australian anthropologists published on October 10 in the American Journal of Science, in the Stone Age, prehistoric people lived on hunter-gatherers and workers. Farming has for a long time coexisted and lives side by side in Central Europe.

The time when these two groups coexist together lasts about 2,000 years, longer than previously thought.

These studies were carried out based on DNA analysis taken from the remains of 364 prehistoric people at 25 locations in the Elbe and Saale river junctions, and the remains of 25 people in a cave in Westphalia, water Virtue.

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According to researchers, those who live on hunting and gathering and those who work in agriculture cannot be considered the only ancestors of modern Central Europeans.

7,500 years ago, residents of Central Europe lived by hunting and gathering. They were descendants of the first modern people to the continent 45,000 years ago. This part of the hunter-gatherer population survived the last ice age and the Earth began to heat up, taking place about 10,000 years ago.

Meanwhile, the agricultural civilization from the Middle East began to move to Central Europe 7,500 years ago and later developed across Europe, along with the emergence of a community of professionals. agriculture, namely grain cultivation, animal husbandry and handicrafts.

However, contrary to previous popular speculation, this emerging farming community is not immediately "destroyed" by the hunter-gatherer community. In contrast, the two communities have coexisted side by side for at least 2,000 years in Central Europe. Even the genetic analysis results show that sometimes there are cases of marriage between these two communities.

According to scientists, the hunting and gathering method of prehistoric people disappeared about 5,000 years ago to switch to agricultural activities.