During the later 1980ies and early 1990ies the original idea of massive migrations of Neolithic farmers into an almost unsettled and impoverished Central European woodland wilderness began to crumble. Research of the time had revealed previously unrecognized pottery groups such as La Hoguette, and the examination of various lithic assemblages from early Neolithic sites had shown that many of these assemblages showed a non-Neolithic component, albeit in small percentages.

Since then has archaeology realized, that the process of Neolithization was a complex and intertwined one.

Palaeogenetics, on the other hand, had again started out with a simple Childean model of massive population influx, and only changed to more complex admixture scenarios in the past five to six years.

The presentation will review the past decades and examine the current state of knowledge, in the field of archaeology as well as of palaeogenetics.