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So how did they go from Anatolia all the way across Europe to concentrate in Belgium?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Pottery_Neolithic#Analysis_of_mitochondrial_DNA

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Ancient European Neolithic farmers are genetically closest to modern Near-Eastern/ Anatolian populations: genetic matrilineal distances between European Neolithic Linear Pottery culture populations (5,500–4,900 calibrated BC) and modern Western Eurasian populations.[15]

Agricultural and husbandry practices originated 10,000 years ago in a region of the Near East known as the Fertile Crescent.[14] According to the archaeological record this phenomenon, known as "Neolithic", rapidly expanded from these territories into Europe.[14] However, whether this diffusion was accompanied or not by human migrations is greatly debated.[14] Mitochondrial DNA –a type of maternally inherited DNA located in the cell cytoplasm- was recovered from the remains of Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) farmers in the Near East and then compared to available data from other Neolithic populations in Europe and also to modern populations from South-Eastern Europe and the Near East.[14] The obtained results show that substantial human migrations were involved in the Neolithic spread and suggest that the first Neolithic farmers entered Europe following a maritime route through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands.[14]