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O’Connor, Turney and Brown Summary

Laurentide Ice sheet collapse > ❄ global temp & in ? > expansion of Neolithic farming into Mesolithic hunter gatherer territory

Farmers like lowland, Black Sea flooded by Mediterranean, farmers migrated across continent to find more stable settlements with arable land

Flooding during Holocene drove migration of farming populations, led to continental establishment of farming and onset of Neolithic period.