Editing 7th millennium BC (section)

===Europe===
Neolithic culture and technology reached modern Turkey and Greece c. 7000 BC; and Crete about the same time. The innovations, including the introduction of farming, spread from the Middle East through Turkey and Egypt. There is evidence of domesticated sheep or goats, pigs, and cattle, together with grains of cultivated bread wheat.<ref>{{cite book |title=Europe Between the Oceans |author=Barry Cunliffe |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2011 |page=94}}</ref> The domestication of pigs in Eastern Europe is believed to have begun c. 6800 BC. The pigs may have descended from European wild boar or were probably introduced by farmers migrating from the Middle East.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070903204822.htm |title=Ancient Pig DNA Study Sheds New Light on Colonization of Europe By Early Farmers |website=ScienceDaily |date=4 September 2007 |access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref> There is evidence, c. 6200 BC, of farmers from the Middle East reaching the Danube and moving into Romania and Serbia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-02/uow-ids020813.php |title=Isotopic data show farming arrived in Europe with migrants |work=EurekAlert! |publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |date=11 February 2013 |access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref> Farming gradually spread westward and northward over the next four millennia, finally reaching Great Britain and Scandinavia c. 3000 BC to complete the transition of Europe from the [[Mesolithic]] to the Neolithic.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://library.eb.co.uk/levels/adult/article/Neolithic/55271 |title=Neolithic |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |date=2019 |access-date=6 November 2019}}</ref>