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There has been thought that domestication of dairy animals like cows have either been founded in 4th millennium BC or 6th millennium BC. Milk has been important to Europeans from about 7500 years ago. There also could be a genetic difference between cows from Europe and cows from Asian countries.
We know that cows have been around since animals have been domesticated and because of the European Neolithic populations there has been a huge increase in the control that our species has over our food sources and where it has come from. "Lactase persistence in European Neolithic populations provides evidence that the transition to farming involved not only greater control by humans over their food resources" (Thames, 396).

Pic: http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/livestocksystems/nafplio/proceedings/luick/luick.htm

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First farming have been found in east-central Greece, where there was very fertile soils that were easy to grow in. With small and scarce populations who formed settlement mounds and farmed in dried and abandoned river courses. "With access to light, easily worked silts that were watered every year by spring floods" (Thames, 399). As groups grew bigger they started to expand because of a population cap. When the Mediterranean Sea levels rose, turning the Black Sea from fresh water to salt, it tore apart and ruined societies who made their home around the at one point lake.

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Found in 1974 because of a metal (especially gold) in some of these graves. With over 800 burials, it was the first actual known cemetery that multiple communities buried their dead in. Some graves had a lot more goods in them. Some had up to ten items where some had no items. There were beads that were made of gold for the most part and other tools like axes and hammers that were buried with the bodies. A lot of the gold beads were made for jewelry. They were able to attach them to their clothes, facial hair, and other places you were able to put beads, including uses for earrings and other body piercings.

Pic: http://www.anistor.gr/english/enback/o033.htm

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Places like Serbia and all the way to eastern Hungary have had small settlers groups. These groups were hunting and fishing as their main food sources. They were focused on fishing as a main food source. "Distinctive trapezoidal houses this site have been stone carved fish sculptures next to their central hearths; pottery and radiocarbon dates indicate their contemporaneity with early Neolithic farming groups in the Moravia, middle Danube, and Tisza valleys" (Thames, 11)

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"Recent radiocarbon dating indicates that by 6,600–6,500 calibrated (cal) BCE sedentary farming communities were established in northwestern Anatolia at sites such as Barcın, Menteşe, and Aktopraklık C and in coastal western Anatolia at sites such as Çukuriçi and Ulucak, but did not expand north or west of the Aegean for another several hundred years All these sites show material culture affinities with the central and southwestern Anatolian Neolithic" (Hofmanová)

Hofmanováa1, Zuzana, Susanne Kreutzera1, Garrett Hellenthalb, Christian Sella, Yoan Diekmannb, David Díez-del-Molinob, Lucy Van Dorpb, Saioa Lópezb, Athanasios Kousathanascd, Vivian Linkcd, Karola Kirsanowa, Lara M. Cassidye, Rui Martinianoe, Melanie Strobela, Amelie Scheuae, Kostas Kotsakisf, Paul Halsteadg, Sevi Triantaphyllouf, Nina Kyparissi-Apostolikah, Dushka Urem-Kotsoui, Christina Ziotaj, Fotini Adaktylouk, Shyamalika Gopalanl, Dean M. Bobol, Laura Winkelbacha, Jens Blöchera, Martina Unterländera, Christoph Leuenbergerm, Çiler Çilingiroğlun, Barbara Horejso, Fokke Gerritsenp, Stephen J. Shennanq, Daniel G. Bradleye, Mathias Curratr, Krishna R. Veeramahl, Daniel Wegmanncd, Mark G. Thomasb, and Christina Papageorgopoulous2 And. "Zuzana Hofmanová." PNAS | Mobile. Accessed June 09, 2017. http://m.pnas.org/content/113/25/6886.full.

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This culture was known for their really long houses. The Bandkeramik long houses as they were known as. "Of fairly standardized construction, these survive as patterns of Post Falls blamed for the long lateral pits from which the daub (adobe) for about wanting walls was extracted. Internal groups of massive timber post supported the pitched roof (covered in thatch) which rested on and overhung the sidewalls. The northern end of these houses was often more massively fill a split timber planks in abetting trench occasionally the whole of the outer walls was of timber plank construction. Extravagant use of such large timbers maybe response to the forested settings in which these houses were built" (Thames, 407). These houses were used for water accessibility and easily tilted soil. This culture started to expand and they started to move across Europe. There is suggestions that this cultures males started mating with females from hunter gatherer groups.

Pic: https://www.thoughtco.com/linearbandkeramik-culture-farming-innovators-171552

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Seafood being a major part of these cultures diet. They ate a lot of shell fish. There have been human remains have also been found, thinking that there were mortuary rituals that could have happened there. These hunter-gatherers were known as complex and had specialized skills that enabled them to be able to forage in the colder ocean and terrestrial lands.

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There was Neolithic transition that made its way into Portugal, Paris, northern and western France and edvntually made its way into Britain and Ireland. Farming was introduced to these islands by colonist-farmers. There has been evidence of nitrogen isotopes found in human bones suggesting that in places on the coast, have been eating marine food like fish and shellfish. And with new land came new crops and new livestock to domesticate.

Pic: http://www.eupedia.com/europe/neolithic_europe_map.shtml

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A man about 45 found very nicely preserved because of the cooler temperatures of the region. This man had been killed by a blizzard, then was shot in the back below the left shoulder. The corpse was freeze dried by the cold winds and then winter shortly followed covering the body with snow and ice. He had with him a unfinished bow; probably to hunt and even expand his culture further. He WA pretty much covered head to toe in animal fur including his backpack and carrying cases.
Looking over the body they discovered that he was not healthy. He had just gotten some tattoos probably meaning that he had arthritis and the fact he hurt his hand on a knife a couple days before.

Pic: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/348958671102651442/

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They found out from this guy from his preserved body that, "Analysis of the pollen residues in his gut has, however, allowed a remarkable reconstruction of his last meals, and reveals that in the last 33 hours or so before his death he had moved from the Hyatt house close to the timberline down to a lower a wooden valley, before returning to above the snow land where he died ... Analysis of moss from the body showed that it had come from the southside of the Alps, quite possibly from the Vinschgau, only 20 km due south of the place where he met his end. Isotope studies of the Iceman's of bones, teeth, and stomach contents indicate that he spent his childhood in the Eisack Valley in the lowest Vinschgau, and as an adult migrated to slightly higher altitudes or a few kilometers upstream, or was perhaps engaged in seasonal transhumance" (Thames, 408). They say the arrowhead that was shot in his back cut his subclavical artery that caused heavy bleeding, which ultimately lead to him bleeding out.

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the timeline was created for ANTH104 at Cascadia College

Scarre, Christopher. Human past: world prehistory et the development of human societies. London: Thames et Hudson, 2013.

Groeneveld, Emma. "Prehistoric Hunter-gatherer Societies." Ancient History Encyclopedia. December 09, 2016. Accessed June 09, 2017. http://www.ancient.eu/article/991/.

Hofmanováa1, Zuzana, Susanne Kreutzera1, Garrett Hellenthalb, Christian Sella, Yoan Diekmannb, David Díez-del-Molinob, Lucy Van Dorpb, Saioa Lópezb, Athanasios Kousathanascd, Vivian Linkcd, Karola Kirsanowa, Lara M. Cassidye, Rui Martinianoe, Melanie Strobela, Amelie Scheuae, Kostas Kotsakisf, Paul Halsteadg, Sevi Triantaphyllouf, Nina Kyparissi-Apostolikah, Dushka Urem-Kotsoui, Christina Ziotaj, Fotini Adaktylouk, Shyamalika Gopalanl, Dean M. Bobol, Laura Winkelbacha, Jens Blöchera, Martina Unterländera, Christoph Leuenbergerm, Çiler Çilingiroğlun, Barbara Horejso, Fokke Gerritsenp, Stephen J. Shennanq, Daniel G. Bradleye, Mathias Curratr, Krishna R. Veeramahl, Daniel Wegmanncd, Mark G. Thomasb, and Christina Papageorgopoulous2 And. "Zuzana Hofmanová." PNAS | Mobile. Accessed June 09, 2017. http://m.pnas.org/content/113/25/6886.full.