The Establishment of Agrarian Communities on the North European Plain [and Comments and Reply]

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Abstract
The introduction of food production to the North European Plain was a complicated process. A crucial distinction must be drawn between the exogenous agrarian communities which penetrated the lowland zone and the indigenous foraging communities which ultimately adopted elements of the agrarian economy. This paper discusses the nature of these two populations and proposes some models for their interaction which ultimately led to the integration of domestic plants and animals into the indigenous subsistence-settlement system. The consequences of this process for the new agrarian communities are also discussed.

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