• About 9,000 years ago, farming groups from Anatolia set out westward, bringing grains, livestock, and a new understanding of how to organize life.
  • They followed two main routes: one via the Aegean and the Balkans into the Danube basin to Central Europe, the other along the Mediterranean coast to southern Italy, southern France, and the Iberian Peninsula.
  • Although populations in Europe increased with the transition to agriculture, people’s height and weight decreased.
  • The remains of a Neolithic farmer were found in the municipality of Asparn an der Zaya in Lower Austria.

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