Tone
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The land around Central Europe is in the same climate zone as the Pacific North West in North America. When "discovered" by Europeans about 200 years ago, the Native Americans living in this zone practiced little to no agriculture, yet achieved a fairly high population density because the area was rich in available food resources, including fish.The question for me is, why the difference in central Europe? Was there less suitable land for these Near Eastern crops, and were crops less abundant even in those specific areas, and so their way of life seemed less successful? Was there more territory suitable to the retention of the HG way of life? Or were these people just less adaptable to a new way of life? After all, in a deeply profound and professional comment, Dr. Wolfgang Haak stated for a Washington Post article that “Farmers are probably loud, noisy and stinky at the same time. They come with domestic farm animals and just take over the place.” Maybe they even had mandolins?
The situation in Central Europe was probably the same thousands of years ago. The Central European LBK farmers were stopped because it's quite possible the natives were too strong in number in the territories North, East and West of the agricultural lands. And the natives had no incentive to adopt agriculture since they were already living in one of the best food spots the planet Earth has to offer.
Just an idea...