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This is the science podcast for November 20th, 2025. I'm Sarah Crespi. First this week, what happened to Europe's Neolithic Farmers? Contributing correspondent Andrew Curry discusses the coinciding disappearance of these early farmers

and the appearance of mass graves across the continent.

Next on the show, recent dog research published in science with Editor for Life Sciences, Sasha Vigneri. We talk about the movement of dogs alongside ancient human populations.

We examine when dogs first diversified, and we probe the relationship between modern dog breeds and their personalities.

The earliest known farmers are from this region of Turkey called Anatolia.

They started around 9,000 years ago.

7,000 years ago, some of these farmers left Turkey and started to move across Europe, filling in the valleys of fertile land, starting small farms and settlements. These are European Neolithic

farmers. They're using stone tools and there's no writing. But there is pottery. It's actually

called the LBK culture sometimes because of these pots that were created across

this big swath of Europe by these people.

This week in science, contributing correspondent Andrew Curry wrote about the mystery of what

happened to these Stone Age farmers that left Anatolia spread across Europe.

And then, after four or five hundred years, they disappeared.

The origins of the LBK, of the Neolithic farmers in Europe, that's been pinned down.

They came from Anatolia, part of Turkey.

And that was something that was figured out through ancient DNA pretty recently.

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