Archaeologists have for decades tried to pin down when the first farming communities appeared in Europe and how farmers spread across the continent to replace mobile groups of hunter-gatherers.
Radiocarbon data from southern European sites now unveil a lightning-fast colonization of this region by small farming groups, says Joo Zilho of the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology in Lisbon.
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