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SUBMITTER: Cramp LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4132672 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cramp Lucy J E LJ Evershed Richard P RP Lavento Mika M Halinen Petri P Mannermaa Kristiina K Oinonen Markku M Kettunen Johannes J Perola Markus M Onkamo Päivi P Heyd Volker V
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20140901 1791
The conventional 'Neolithic package' comprised animals and plants originally domesticated in the Near East. As farming spread on a generally northwest trajectory across Europe, early pastoralists would have been faced with the challenge of making farming viable in regions in which the organisms were poorly adapted to providing optimal yields or even surviving. Hence, it has long been debated whether Neolithic economies were ever established at the modern limits of agriculture. Here, we examine f ...[more]