Reconstruction:
Neolithic farmers
dance beside an engraved rock |
While in the Alpine area this culture still connected with the Palaeolithic
world continues, in the Balkan-Danubian and Middle Eastern zones new ways
of life and production were developing. Local groups and always largest
communities started to find alternative alimentary sources to replace
the others easy to find in nature: this is the dawning of farming and
breeding that produces as more evident consequences the “sedentariness”
and the birth of stable communities. |
From these areas the agricultural culture spread in large neighbouring
zones, North, in the Central-European area, West, in the Central-Southern
and after Northern Italy, through the direct colonization of new lands by
Carpathic-Danubian people, and contacts between these people and the
Mesolithic native groups, with economies still based on hunting and harvesting.
In other areas, simple forms of farming and breeding developed and
induce gradually the Mesolithic and Palaeolithic groups to more advanced
phases of economic development.
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