Connected World Processes · Migration

Farming spread through movement and adoption

c. 7000-3500 BCE · Anatolia, the Balkans and wider comparative routes

Agriculture spread through mixtures of population movement, intermarriage, exchange and local adoption; language-family expansions may overlap but cannot be equated automatically with genes or pottery.

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How the setting appeared

New fields and villages appeared within landscapes long used by hunter-gatherer communities.

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How people lived

Migrant and local groups interacted in ways ranging from exchange to displacement; outcomes differed by region.

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How people worked

Seed, livestock and craft practices traveled alongside people, while local foods and techniques persisted.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Ritual traditions changed through contact, but artifact styles do not identify a single faith or people.

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World-atlas stage: Farmers and villages
Region: Europe · Anatolia, the Balkans and wider comparative routes
Languages and scripts: Proposed early language-family dispersals; Unrecorded local languages
Important people: No individual is centered in this record
Events and changes: Agricultural expansion into Europe; Regional adoption and persistence of foraging
Evidence confidence: Medium - archaeology and ancient DNA support movement, while language correlations remain contested.

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Historical geography

A dated anchor, not an exact border

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.

Map geometry loads only when requested. Modern outlines are orientation only; historical geography and identities changed through time.

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Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-GLOBAL-GLOTTOLOG

Glottolog language-family catalogue

https://glottolog.org/

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

CIT-GLOBAL-NATURE-NEOLITHIC-EUROPE

The genomic history of southeastern Europe

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

Nature

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