Climate of Change
“There does not seem to have been any wholesale genetic replacement as the farmers moved in on the hunters and foragers; the various populations simply merged. This does not necessarily mean that there were no cultural clashes. The change just may have been slower and more subtle than outright conquest.
The setting is northern Iberia, the foothills of the western Pyrenees. The time is 4,100 years ago.
Haven shook her head. There simply wasn’t enough left to eat. It had been a lean summer, and now they faced the fall and winter without adequate stores. Something had to be done.
She discussed it first with Crenelle, as she also had a child. Adults could suffer through when they had to, but it was awful to do it to children.
“You’re right,” Crenelle agreed. “We can’t make it through the winter.”
“What are our alternatives?” Haven knew them, but didn’t want to speak them.
“We can’t stay here. We’ll have to go. But where?”
Where else? “We’ll have to go to your people,”
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