” where every single male sampled belonged to a single, newly introduced Y-lineage. Remarkably, this Bell Beaker Y-lineage is never seen before in Bohemia, implying that a new clan arrived in the region and almost immediately replaced all pre-existing Y-lineages with not a single lineage from Corded Ware or previous societies found among Bell Beaker males.”
Raiders from the steppes swept in and killed the men and took the women and supplanted the existing culture, probably an agrarian culture. Something like This:
“We came out of the rising sun and soon the west was overrun
So great a train of us did past
The first knew nothing of the last
We forged along, we stormed along
We were victorious and strong!
The first would fall, the next would stand, the third was ready sword in hand
We did not stay, we came in haste, one seized a woman to his taste
One seized an oxen from a stall, where horses were we took them all....”
Goethe, song of the Western Man.
Barbarian invasions. I suspect that most of them are pretty much the same.
quote “Raiders from the steppes swept in and killed the men and took the women and supplanted the existing culture, probably an agrarian culture”
yep, my thoughts exactly. The raiders were all from a common male lineage, swept in and killed all the men, and took the women for wives.
Where are my reparations?