If agriculture, and the social and cultural revolutions triggered by this new form of extracting economic productivity from land, was a major variable in triggering recent human evolution it is important to know when it swept over a particular region. With the big ranges given for when selection pressures began to reshape a genomic region the narrower values from archaeology might be very useful. So here's another map of the spread of agriculture in Europe....


Dienekes has an old post with similar numbers. The recent results which imply that SLC24A5 (responsible for 1/3 of the European vs. African skin color difference) might have only started rising in frequency 6-12 thousand years ago would be constrained if we are to assume that changes triggered by agriculture were necessary; as farming only spread to northern Europe around 7,000 years ago.

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Below the fold I cut & pasted some of the rows from the Agricultural Transition Data Set.


Israel 10500
Jordan 10500
Lebanon 10500
Syrian Arab Republic 10500
Iraq 10000
Turkey 10000
Iran, Islamic Rep. 9500
Kuwait 9500
Afghanistan 9000
China 9000
Pakistan 9000
Cyprus 8500
Greece 8500
India 8500
Armenia 8000
Azerbaijan 8000
Germany 8000
Italy 8000
Turkmenistan 8000
Malta 7600
Saudi Arabia 7600
Yemen 7600
Albania 7500
Bahrain 7500
Bulgaria 7500
France 7500
Macedonia 7500
Oman 7500
Qatar 7500
Romania 7500
Serbia and Montenegro 7500
United Arab Emirates 7500
Hungary 7400
Egypt, Arab Rep. 7200
Spain 7200
Bosnia and Herzegovina 7000
Croatia 7000
Moldova 7000
Slovenia 7000
Tajikistan 7000
Austria 6500
Czech Republic 6500
Kazakhstan 6500
Kyrgyzstan 6500
Portugal 6500
Slovakia 6500
Ukraine 6500
Uzbekistan 6500
Georgia 6000
Laos 6000
Nepal 6000
Netherlands 6000
Poland 6000
Vietnam 6000
Bangladesh 5500
Belgium 5500
Bhutan 5500
Denmark 5500
Libya 5500
Liechtenstein 5500
Luxembourg 5500
Sweden 5500
Switzerland 5500
Taiwan, China 5500
Thailand 5500
United Kingdom 5500
Hong Kong, China 5000
Ireland 5000
Mongolia 5000
Myanmar 5000
Norway 5000
Philippines 5000
Russia 5000
Sri Lanka 5000
Sudan 5000
Belarus 4500
Cambodia 4500
Japan 4500
Korea, Rep. 4500
Malaysia 4500
Singapore 4500
Tunisia 4500
Peru 4300
Mexico 4100
Algeria 4000
Bolivia 4000
Brunei 4000
Chile 4000
Ecuador 4000
Ethiopia 4000
Indonesia 4000
Niger 4000
Papua New Guinea 4000
Paraguay 4000
Argentina 3800
Guyana 3800
Venezuela 3800
Estonia 3700
Latvia 3700
Lithuania 3700
French Guiana 3600
Suriname 3600
Uruguay 3600
Brazil 3500
Burundi 3500
Cote d'Ivoire 3500
Finland 3500
Ghana 3500
Guatemala 3500
Kenya 3500
Mariana Islands 3500
Mauritania 3500
Morocco 3500
Somalia 3500
Uganda 3500
United States 3500
Colombia 3400
Belize 3300
Guinea 3250
Liberia 3250
Sierra Leone 3250
Benin 3100
Togo 3100
Cameroon 3000
Central African Republic 3000
Congo, Rep. 3000
Demcratic Rep. of Congo 3000
El Salvador 3000
Gabon 3000
Gambia, The 3000
Guinea-Bissau 3000
Honduras 3000
Mali 3000
Nicaragua 3000
Senegal 3000
Burkina Faso 2900
Chad 2700
Nigeria 2700
Costa Rica 2500
Rwanda 2500
Tanzania 2500
Panama 2400
Grenada 2000
Madagascar 2000
Trinidad and Tobago 2000
Malawi 1800
Zambia 1800
Barbados 1700
South Africa 1700
Canada 1500
Dominican Republic 1500
Lesotho 1500
Swaziland 1500
Mozambique 1400
Zimbabwe 1400
Angola 1250
Namibia 1250
Botswana 1000
Haiti 1000
Jamaica 1000

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