When the First Farmers Arrived in Europe, Inequality Evolved

Share this on WhatsApp Scientific American July 2020 Forests gave way to fields, pushing hunter-gatherers to the margins—geographically and socially Eight thousand years ago small bands of seminomadic hunter-gatherers were the only human beings roaming Europe’s lush, green forests. Archaeological digs in caves and elsewhere have turned up evidence of their Mesolithic technology: flint-tipped tools … Continue reading When the First Farmers Arrived in Europe, Inequality Evolved