At first they assumed it came from intermarriage with modern Europeans.
The finely sifted white flour that modern Europeans are most familiar with was reserved for the bread of the upper classes.
But in return you have to start thinking like modern Europeans.
In particular, 82% of hunter-gatherers had maternal lineages that are rare in modern central Europeans.
Thus, modern Europeans are primarily descended from these Neolithic farmers.
The great cathedrals don't have much to do with the everyday lives of modern godless Europeans but nobody is calling for them to be pulled down.
Instead, they interbred with moderns, contributing genes to modern Europeans.
Early modern Europeans wore purses for one purpose, to carry coins.
In the 17th century, the French were the first modern Europeans to explore what became known as Ohio Country.
It was the first geyser described in a printed source and the first known to modern Europeans.