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One can see from the first map that there was impenetrable forests after the Ice Age melted. Humans could migrate to open grasslands where the animals they hunted were plentiful. Those coming out of Africa first would be people Hg E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, would flourish in the Middle East and many like Hg I, E and G would venture into the forests of Europe. Hg H and L would inhabit Elam in Iran at the top northeastern edge of the Persian Gulf and the Harrapa civilization in the Indus River. This civilization stretched from Iran to the Indian subcontinent. It was the largest civilization at the time.
The Agriculturalists would have a hard time establishing in Europe as those hunter-gathers would attack the agriculturalists. These agriculturalists were not warriors nor desperate. Imagine trying to cut down a forest with stone or bronze axes, uprooting roots, removing stones and then plowing the cleared land all the while the hunter-gathers attacking to defend their territories? very difficult or impossible.
The Aryans who appeared 20,000 years later were warriors unlike the agriculturalists. You need to be a warrior to conquer Europe. The Aryans, R1a and R1b, had horses and bronze swords and overcame the hunter-gathers of Europe who were mostly of Hg I, G, E. The conquest of Europe would be the Bronze Age "Wild West" with horsemen weilding their swords vanquishing the hunter gathers for the metal-mining sites and grasslands. Once the hunter gathers were vanquished from those coveted lands the metal workers began mining and metal working. It needs a lot of charcoal to get metal out of the ores so gradually the forests be cleared around the mining sites. The Aryans were not only herdsmen but also agriculturalists as the woman mummy found in Sinkiang, China had a basket of wheat with her.
Agriculture would take place with the cleared forests.
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