Recent content by Ygorbr

Yes, sorry, I misread the terms, they're so similar, and to make things more confusing R1b was also found in the Villabruna cluster! LOL

I don't know if I understood all the details of the study correctly, but did they find a genetic, as well as the previously suggested linguistic, link between the Athabaskan peoples and the Siberian Kets, living in central-western Siberia, through intermediary Siberian-shifted Paleo-Eskimos who...

Was Villanovan R1b even R1b-M269? I don't really remember, but I don't think so. In my opinion there isn't necessarily a continuous genetic relationship between Villanovan people in northern Italy and R1b-U152 heavy Italian regions nowadays. The R1b subclades of Villanovan, Iron Gates and other...

Why "certainly weren't"? If the very plausible assumption that Philistines were descended from coastal seamen, probably one of the Sea Peoples, then the best hypotheses - and the ones that most scholars now consider at least worth investigating - are that they came from somewhere in the Aegean...

I agree. That's also how I "picture" the historical sequence of events indicated by evidences of genetics and linguistics.

I'd bet on Semites for that. In my opinion, dialects of Proto-Afro-Asiatic, a much older language (some estimate it to have been spoken as far as 15,000 years ago), were spread by this ancient expansion formed by mainly Levantine farmer and perhaps later a bit of Anatolian-shifted ancestry...

I actually expected even more, but, anyway, for those who were or are so obsessed about racial purity and about exclusive and artificially strict distinctions between races, this result must be a scandal ready to be properly hidden. I expected even larger proportions due to the initial decades...

I could've mentioned Zenobia of Palmyrene Empire, a Semitic kingdom under a powerful supreme ruler,, or even the mythical and probably South Arabian Queen of Sheba. But of course that wouldn't be useful to your manichaean depiction of freedom in IE societies versus oppressive Near Eastern...

This is not "intuition". This is the opinion of modern, critical historiography, trying to keep things objective and scientific, and based on a much wider set of evidences and sources, something that almost all ancient authors lacked as they wrote from their partial and personal points of view...

Granted, but certainly not that difficult to imagine in the ancient history of Egypt, Semitic societies in the Levant and even Arabia (Khadija, Muhammad's first wife and counsellor, was clearly an independent businesswoman and trader), or in many Native American societies, and certainly not that...

That some Indo-European tribes of the Iron Age (a mere 2,000-3,000 years away from Proto-Indo-European Yamna, but let's forget about this huge chronological gap for now) had women warriors is not disputed. That this means necessarily that women in general were regarded as equal or nearly equal...

Yes, but then we also know of some very powerful, intellectually independent and very wealthy Catholic medieval women in Europe, like, for example, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Amalasuntha. We also know of influent intellectuals like Catherine of Siena and Theresa of Avila, even warriors like Joan...

We have no solid proof that Celtic and Sarmatian women were as free and equal to men as Hollywood movies of "barbarian women warriors" depict them. It's not the first time that Hollywood is extremely anachronistic and impresses contemporary values and practices into ancient history. The fact...

Do you really think there has been a continuity of values and gender roles in Europe between Bell Beaker and 20th century liberal and secular Europe? That's an extremely overstretching argument. If anything, the Indo-European cultures of Europe also absorbed elements of the Neolithic societies...

Apart from raiding and kidnapping women (perhaps in a relatively institutionalized and, thus, pretty much expected fashion, as it still happens in isolated parts of Kyrgyzstan), the exchange of women together with goods can also suggest the maintenance of good relations and military and/or...