Hunters, gatherers and farmers

The hunters and gatherers in the wet landscape at the end of the Middle Stone Age are doing well. So well, in fact, that it takes a long time before they adopt the new, great invention: agriculture. 
 
All over Europe, people start growing crops and living on farms. They abandon their nomadic life and settle down in one place for life. This new way of living also comes to our water-abundant regions. Will this invention turn life upside down again? 
 
For a long time that appears not to be the case: for thousands of years hunters stuck their way of life, while having contact with early farmers. For example to exchange stone axes. Farmers use them for woodworking, but hunters and gatherers use them as ritual sacrifices. Yet, eventually they will also adapt their lives and settle as farmers. With this, an invention has once again changed life.