Maps of Neolithic & Bronze Age migrations around Europe

Contents

1. Mesolithic & Origins of Agriculture (9000-7000 BCE) 2. Diffusion of Farming (9500-3800 BCE) 3. Early European Neolithic (6000-5000 BCE) 4. Early to Middle European Neolithic (5000-4500 BCE) 5. Diffusion of Copper Metallurgy (5800-1800 BCE) 6. Late European Neolithic (4000-3500 BCE) 7. European Chalcolithic (3500-3000 BCE) 8. Early Bronze Age (3000-2500 BCE) 9. Early to Middle Bronze Age (2500-2000 BCE) 10. Middle Bronze Age (2000-1500 BCE) 11. Late Bronze Age (1500-1200 BCE) 12. Hallstatt & La Tène Expansions (1200-200 BCE) 13. R1a Migration 14. R1b Migration

Mesolithic tribes and the origins of agriculture in the Near East (9000-7000 BCE)

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Expansion of agriculture from the Middle East to Europe (9500-3800 BCE)

Map of early Neolithic cultures in Europe from c. 7,000 to 8,000 years ago

Map of early to middle Neolithic cultures in Europe from c. 6,500 to 7,000 years ago

Expansion of the Copper Age around Europe and the Near East (5800-1800 BCE)

Map of Neolithic cultures from c. 5,500 to 6,000 years ago

Map of Neolithic & Chalcolithic cultures from c. 5,000 to 5,500 years ago

Map of late Neolithic & early Bronze Age cultures from c. 5,000 to 4,500 years ago

Map of early to middle Bronze Age cultures from c. 4,500 to 4,000 years ago

Map of middle Bronze Age cultures from c. 4,000 to 3,500 years ago

Map of late Bronze Age cultures from c. 3,200 to 3,000 years ago

Expansions of the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures

Haplogroup migration maps

Migration map of haplogroup R1a from the Neolithic to the late Bronze Age (c. 1000 BCE)

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Migration map of Y-haplogroup R1b from the Paleolithic to the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1000 BCE)

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