Farmers assimilated foragers as they spread agriculture
Ancient Europeans’ genetic makeup reveals that those who resisted died out
STAYING APART Some European hunter-gatherers resisted taking up agriculture and didn’t breed with early farmers, suggests DNA from the skeleton of a young hunter-gatherer woman (shown) and other foragers buried at the Ajvide site on Sweden’s Gotland island.
Göran Burenhult
Agriculture’s spread into Europe was a movement of people, not just ideas, new genetic data suggest.