If Neolithic European Farmers had swept across the continent in a blaze of violence, then we would expect that the invaders would have been mostly men. But analyses of DNA from people alive around this time demonstrate that roughly equal numbers of males and females migrated westward.[50] The fact that the couples and probably whole families moved en masse to set up farms suggests that there was little or no resistance from Western Hunter-gatherers. It is inconceivable that the indigenous foragers would have allowed their land to be stolen and their way of life destroyed. So if farming wasn’t
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