The Neolithic Revolution: Europe's First Farmers

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Farming came into existence in the Fertile Crescent, but it didn't stay there. By 5000 BC, agriculture had spread east and west, reaching both Central Asia and the Atlantic Ocean. But how did this happen? Did indigenous hunter-gatherers adopt farming, or did the farmers themselves move and bring their way of life with them?

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Tides of History, add free on Amazon Music.
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0:05.6	The bleeding sheep drowned out the crashing of the waves onto the rocks and sand that
0:21.2	stretched out below the hillside.
0:25.6	A young shepherd grasping his staff and accompanied by his barking yipping dog glanced away from
0:30.7	his flock and looked out at the water.
0:33.0	It shifted from a deep blue to a stunning aquamarine as it neared the shoreline.
0:38.1	A little further away, barely visible, the young man could see a small dug out boat flinging
0:43.0	through the waves.
0:44.0	There would be a couple of men on board, you know, carrying woven nets and looking for
0:48.0	the fish that teamed here in the waters of the Aegean Sea.
0:52.4	His gaze turned back toward the shore, taking in the ripening fields of grain stretching
0:56.5	up the gentle slopes toward his village.
0:58.6	A cluster of rectangular mud brick houses surrounded by enclosures for their sheep, goats,
1:04.0	and cattle.
1:05.0	Little plumes of smoke rose upward from the cookfires where the villagers baked their
1:08.7	bread and the kilns where potters were firing their wares.
1:12.4	Others were busy milking goats and cows, grinding grain, shipping flints into the shapes
1:16.5	necessary for sickles and arrowheads, and shaping clay for pots and jars.
1:23.1	Some 8,500 years ago, the shores of the Aegean Sea were a good place to be a farmer.
1:31.1	The Shepherd's ancestors had come from the east, from the fringes of the fertile crescent
1:34.9	in Anatolia.
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