How Hunter-Gatherers Persisted in Northwestern Europe’s Wetlands - Archaeology Magazine

How Hunter-Gatherers Persisted in Northwestern Europe’s Wetlands - Archaeology Magazine

LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a report by the Anadolu Agency, descendants of western Anatolian farmers traveled through Thrace and the Balkans and mixed with local hunter-gatherers in Europe, resulting in a 70- to 100-percent turnover of the ancestry of the European population between 6500 and 4000 B.C. This new group became known as Early European Farmers. But Iñigo Olalde of the University of the Basque Country, and Eveline Altena, Quen…