The Long Walk West
from The History Of Us Hosted by Willie D.Bestman
How did farming get from the Near East to Europe? This episode covers Andrew Sherratt’s Secondary Products Revolution (milk, wool and the plow), explains why the first dairy farmers couldn’t actually digest milk, and follows the ancient-DNA evidence showing Europe’s first farmers were migrants, not converted locals. It ends at a glacier in the Alps with the body of Ötzi, whose genome ties him straight back to Anatolia. History of us
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