Neolithic Migration Patterns (IMAGE)

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Neolithic Migration Patterns

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Genetic markers in modern populations indicate the Neolithic migrants who brought farming to Europe traveled from the Levant into Anatolia and then island hopped to Greece via Crete and then to Sicily and north into Southern Europe.

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Modified NASA map

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