Europe · Migration

Farming, herding and village expansion

c. 7000-3500 BCE · Aegean, Balkans and temperate Europe

Farming and herding spread from the Aegean and Balkans through migration, intermarriage and local adoption, producing no single uniform Neolithic culture.

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How the setting appeared

Timber or mud-built houses, storage pits, fields and grazing zones appeared within older forest and wetland landscapes.

Agent citation CIT-BRITISH-EUROPECIT-NATURE-NEOLITHIC-EUROPE Setting and material context · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Households relied increasingly on cultivated grain and livestock while retaining hunting, gathering and fishing; health and inequality changed unevenly.

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How people worked

Ground stone axes, sickles, pottery, weaving, carpentry and seasonal field labor organized village economies.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Burials, figurines, house deposits and monuments indicate varied ritual practices without proving one farming religion.

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World-atlas stage: Farmers and villages
Region: Europe · Aegean, Balkans and temperate Europe
Languages and scripts: Unrecorded early farming languages; Later language affiliations cannot be read directly from pottery
Important people: No individual is centered in this record
Events and changes: Aegean village formation; Danubian farming expansion; Atlantic and northern adoption of food production
Evidence confidence: High for broad movement and mixed economies; medium for regional social organization.

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Historical geography

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The local map uses modern coastlines only for orientation. The marker identifies this record's geographic anchor, not the full reach of a community or polity.

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Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-BRITISH-EUROPE

Britain, Europe and Prehistory Collections and Galleries

https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/britain-europe-and-prehistory

The British Museum

CIT-NATURE-NEOLITHIC-EUROPE

The genomic history of southeastern Europe

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25778

Nature

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