Fascinating! Be interesting to track farming technology using a similar map, that which isn’t unique to certain regions that is.
pr1ncipat on
Why did they wait so long in northern europe?
Couldn’t they just use the internet to google the secrets of farming?
AnaphoricReference on
It would be interesting to overlay this on soil types.
It’s for instance unsurprising to see where it spread quickly in the Balkans or along the löss soil belt from Ukraine to the west of France, or spread slowly into wet lowlands or mountain ranges. But there are still open questions. Are the Western Mediterranean coasts for instance objectively good for agriculture from the perspective of a prehistoric farmer? Or is that more about ships?
Sinnafyle on
Damn! I’m reading a book about this and the expansion of agriculture, trade, urban-rural migration, and globalization, all in relation to the resource of water. So cool to have this visual to go with it! *Water: A Biography* by Giulio Boccaletti if you’re interested
Upstairs-Extension-9 on
Malta is missing [they](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Malta) had also the first farmers settling there 5900BC until they degraded the land so far it was uninhabitable. Resettled in around 4000 BC where Maltas megalithic temples been made. The little Island nation shouldn’t be forgotten in European history.
winfryd on
Moldova had early farming on both sides, yet it took 1500 years for them to get it.
Joseph20102011 on
3800 BC was a very different world than today where the Fertile Crescent and the African Mediterranean regions were more fertile back then than the present-day.
Vonplinkplonk on
Judging by the scale of the sites at Gobekli Tepe and before it looks like farming emerge even earlier than proposed here.
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Fascinating! Be interesting to track farming technology using a similar map, that which isn’t unique to certain regions that is.
Why did they wait so long in northern europe?
Couldn’t they just use the internet to google the secrets of farming?
It would be interesting to overlay this on soil types.
It’s for instance unsurprising to see where it spread quickly in the Balkans or along the löss soil belt from Ukraine to the west of France, or spread slowly into wet lowlands or mountain ranges. But there are still open questions. Are the Western Mediterranean coasts for instance objectively good for agriculture from the perspective of a prehistoric farmer? Or is that more about ships?
Damn! I’m reading a book about this and the expansion of agriculture, trade, urban-rural migration, and globalization, all in relation to the resource of water. So cool to have this visual to go with it! *Water: A Biography* by Giulio Boccaletti if you’re interested
Malta is missing [they](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Malta) had also the first farmers settling there 5900BC until they degraded the land so far it was uninhabitable. Resettled in around 4000 BC where Maltas megalithic temples been made. The little Island nation shouldn’t be forgotten in European history.
Moldova had early farming on both sides, yet it took 1500 years for them to get it.
3800 BC was a very different world than today where the Fertile Crescent and the African Mediterranean regions were more fertile back then than the present-day.
Judging by the scale of the sites at Gobekli Tepe and before it looks like farming emerge even earlier than proposed here.