Ancient Greeks Were Britain's First Farmers
By
Philip Chrysopoulos
July 3, 2022
A recent study claims that Ancient Greeks were among Britain’s first farmers. Credit: Biswarup Ganguly, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0/Wikipedia
People from ancient Greece and the Aegean Sea region were the first farmers in Britain, according to a study published recently in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
According to the study, titled “Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain,” Neolithic cultures first appeared in Britain circa 4000 BC, almost one thousand years after they first appeared in continental Europe.
Since farming in Europe first developed in the area around the Aegean Sea, it appears that people from the Anatolia region—today’s Greece and Turkey—found their way to continental Europe, and later Britain, through a Mediterranean route circa 6000 BC.
It was a very slow process for the Anatolian populations to emigrate to Europe and eventually to Britain, bringing their farming technology with them. Farming was developed in Britain markedly later than it had been in continental Europe.
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