This was way after the agricultural revolution, so I imagine there was a lot of agriculture about - and of course the civilisations that were arising in mesopotamia. But were there any entirely hunter-gatherer tribes left in europe, that had little or no agriculture? If so, were they widespread, or were they in specific pockets? Where did they live?
This is all for a story. Thanks for the help :)
The conventional archaeological narrative is that the transition to farming in Europe was complete by about 4,000 BCE. The last well-attested hunter-gatherer culture was the Scandinavian Ertebølle culture, who had an extremely productive foraging economy and lived side-by-side with farmers for one and half millennia before they finally gave in and adopted agriculture themselves.
Of course, archaeology only tells us the broad-strokes picture. It's entirely possible that after the majority of a region adopted or was colonised by farmers, pockets of hunter-gatherers clung on, not leaving much of a trace in the archaeological record. And indeed there was a recent study that found that there were genetically distinct lineages of hunter-gatherers in Central Europe up to two thousand years after the arrival of the first farmers in the region.
In other words, while there isn't any direct evidence as yet, it's plausible there were groups of hunter-gatherers left in Europe by 3,000 BCE. Although if there were, they really would be the last of a dying breed. It's also unlikely they'd be what we'd consider "pure" hunter-gatherers after so long living alongside farmers. But that's another story.