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Absolutely. And once horses entered the picture they didn't take part in the act of warfare itself until quite late - they just made people extremely mobile. Which leads to the transfer of ideas over much larger areas, and the option to create "organizations" that can dominate more people. Yes...

:smile: They describe theirs better, but yes, I believe so. Here’s European value study’s methodology. www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu/page/methodology They ask people questions and then make statistics from that. But it’s beside the point imo. When it comes to how they formulate the questions, all...

In my opinion, the christian god of the bible is a personal god. This study from www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu is giving a bit of a different picture than PEW, I think . I'd love to get the exact numbers, put to me it looks like 20% believing in a personal god in Denmark, for instance. And that...

To be honest, the numbers about Denmark surprise me. We've actually seen high numbers of people leaving our lutheran state church the last years. And it's not reflected in that study at all. The numbers for non-practicing christians in Denmark just can't be right, as I see it. But I think it...

I agree. I'm just now reading "guns, germs and steel", and I think he's completely right, that the fact that the amerindians didn't have any large domesticable mammals (except lama's) were a limiting factor to their development. Or at least it slowed it down. It definitely one of the major...

I guess you people all know this study by Haak et al, 2017. "Dramatic events in human prehistory, such as the spread of agriculture to Europe from Anatolia and the late Neolithic/Bronze Age migration from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, can be investigated using patterns of genetic variation among...

I wanted to delete my post because it was in the wrong thread, but I can't find the button. I must be blind.... :rolleyes2:

Maciamo. I couldn't agree more on your last posts about both the japanese and the french. Very funny, after having written my last post in this thread I went into a bookstore in the center of Copenhagen, and they had a table with like 10-15 different books on the topic of danish happiness. We...

Yes, of cause. It makes sense with the R1b since many linguists class tocharian as centum. I never tought to look at the modern uyguhrs Y-DNA today. When I said tarim mummies I meant the oldest and most famous mummies, like beauty of Loulan, cherchen man, witches of Subeshi and the Xiaohe...

Thanks for the link Northerner. It says a lot of the same things as the article I translated. What island are you thinking off, exceedingmumso? I don't think I know about that find.

This is an english translation I made of a danish article. The original article is here: https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/alken-enge-massegrav-fra-jernalderen-faar-haarene-til-at-stritte The published scientific paper they refer to in the article is published on PNAS, and can be easily found...

No, there are an infinite number of patterns, but not an infinite number of simple patterns. Are you sure it is? :)

Just my thoughts. I was going to say something similar to this. Haven't linguists always been in disagreement about wether anatolian was derived from PIE, or if it was rather a sister to PIE? It makes sense to me, that the anatolian languages would have split off earlier from a...

It is very enticing to make all sorts of theories about the swastika and it's spread. The reality is that we find the swastika in so many different and widespread cultures, that there is no doubt that the swastika, like the triskelion, is an archetypical and basic geometric figure of humanity.

But the tarim mummie's were found to be R1a, weren't they? As well as being closer to andronovo than either yamnaya or afanasievo, according to Allentoft 2015 that is. You don't think the tarim mummies were the speakers of tocharian maybe? There's almost 2000 years between the cherchen man and...

I agree with you, Ailchu. The only people to gain from that particular gas attack on civilian syrians, were the loosing islamist rebels - who were known to have their own stockpile of nervegas. Why would Assad gas his own civilians when he's currently winning? It makes no sense. The west has...

Just to be clear, social security isn't being generous and just handing people money if they become unemployed. Social security is helping people getting a new job - one they'll be happy about. This was actually an afterthought to my main post, which apparently was too long, and is awaiting...

First, let me say that I don’t think the idea of a genetic cause is impossible. Of cause it’s possible. I just find in more plausible that culture as well external factors, which there a lot of, come together to make Scandinavian countries come out number in the happiness index. Someone has to...

Thank you too, it's an interesting topic :) I’m sure you know that correlation does not mean causation. Comparing “happiness” and rates of depression between various ethnic groups in Canada or Alaska would be interesting, because it’s on the same longitude as Scandinavia. So it will have the...

You make a good case for the theory, but I'm not buying it. Actually your hypothesis should be pretty easy to verify. Do people of germanic descent in Canada suffer less from depression than their african, middle eastern, asian or latin countrymen? I doubt it. And about the natural selection...