The Origin of Farming in Europe

Domesticated animals lost sexual body size dimorphis due to the fact that males did not have to fight for their females as in the wild. It is also the reason why horns of sheep and goats are much smaller in domestic breeds than their wild ancestors. Through fossil records, we can determine that farming spread from the fertile crescent into europe. In europe, we see a good amount of success with wheat and barley, alongside pigs and cattle. Farming originally penetrated into the balkans, possibly around six thos, 500 b c e, and spread westwards over the course of the next one thousand years right up to the iberian peninsula.