Either way, rapid depopulation would have facilitated their expansion into Europe.
Despite how they populated throughout Europe, they currently exist as a "ghost population". This is quite illuminating in its irony.
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By about 7,500 years ago, longhouses, distinctive pottery designs, and intensive farming techniques had reached Hungary and Germany along the Danube
This explains how well how farming has spread. It also explains how it's methods were developed and shared. However, it's yet to address the origin of farming. Is the origin of farming really this mystery that we are unable to find a unanimous answer to?
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easily have been understood in spiritual terms and led to something like religious reverence for the locations of these events.
It's remarkable how religiosity played an enormous role in the prehistoric world. I thought it would be assumed that they were too busy surviving and providing for themselves and their family to put any significance on religion. It's truly revealing of their complex social and spiritual life.
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contain skeletons with smaller body sizes and reduced horns, again suggesting domestication.
Humans in different parts of the world could not have communicated with each other and taught each other farming... is this the same case with domestication? If they did not teach other domestication, did a more simple circumstance incite this discovery?
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