The skull of Porsmose man, found in Denmark, who died a violent death in the Neolithic period.National Museum of Denmark
The skull of Porsmose man, found in Denmark, who died a violent death in the Neolithic period.National Museum of Denmark
Maybe they ate them:
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/unveiling-ancient-rituals-ice-age-cannibalism
Well, ain’t that just too bad.
So they killed the mountain people, and they won their just reward. Now they stood beside the treasure, On the mountain, dark and red. Turned the stone and looked beneath it... "Peace on Earth" was all it said.
The farmers, also known as the Funnelbeaker culture, lived for about another 1,000 years before another wave of new arrivals from the eastern Steppes moved in.
They aren't around anymore either. They died of shame from always being called "Funnelbeakers."
Time for some reparations…
(Explains why, even today, females still have a genetic predisposition to quickly "get over" a deceased husband and "move on" / submit to the new masters. The genetic legacy of those females who were unable / unwilling to submit simply vanished.)
Regards,
The narrative will be that the original Scandinavians were a peaceful people of color, genocided by Nordic racists.
It is not the strongest that survive, or those most able to adapt. It’s the most murderous.
No one said that. But it’s true.
bttt
had suggested that these first Scandinavian farmers inherited around 30 percent of their genomes from hunter-gatherers,
So what happened to that idea? Did they have 30% or not?
Its not that I am doubting the conclusion and maybe its just the way it was written...
The instinct to protect your food source is a deep and driving one.
I wonder if they were Slavs or closely related.
I would love to see a TV series on the tribes of Europe.
its happening right now in Scandinavia...
The Yamnaya were a group of livestock herders who lived north of the Black Sea and in the Caucasus mountains in modern day Russia and Ukraine.
The group and their descendants arrived in Europe between 4000 and 5000 years ago, New Scientist reports.
At the time Europe had been ravaged by disease, eroding the population’s ability to resist the powerfully built and aggressive Yamnaya horseback warriors. They overwhelmed smaller Europeans and the Yamnaya culture as well as their DNA soon spread throughout the continent.
According archaeologist Kristian Kristiansen, after they brought with their brutal practices there appears to have been a sharp upsurge in lethal violence.
“I’ve become increasingly convinced there must have been a kind of genocide,” said Professor Kristiansen.
He said the Yamnaya lived mostly on meat and milk products which made them “healthier and probably physically quite strong”.
It has been claimed that when the Yamnaya invaded they massacred all the males and impregnated the women in order to rapidly further their bloodlines.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8754910/horse-riding-yamnaya-tribe-most-violent/
Someone is owed reparation! Or has a grievance or something...
“Focusing on one specific region – that just so happens to have a climate suitable for both foraging and farming, and preserving human remains...”
So how do they know there was a genocide? How do they know the hunter-gatherers didn’t just move on?
“Completely displace” does not necessarily mean “wipe out.” In some instances, that could indeed be the case, if the original inhabitants stuck around and fought to the end. But hunter-gatherer peoples tend to be semi- or highly nomadic. In some places, they might have been in the early stages of settling down to agriculture themselves and would be more stubborn about land. In other cases, they might occupy an exceptionally rich area — think about some of the tribes in the Pacific Northwest when the Europeans first showed up — and be reluctant to leave. But for nomadic peoples, drifting away from settlement pressure is the other option.
We have a direct analogue to the situation in northern Europe in the European settlement of North America, Australia, and the lands suitable for agriculture in southern Africa and as far north as Kenya. The ripple effect operated far in advance of the settlement line. (As did the disease wave that annihilated the Native American peoples.) Eventually the fleeing survivors will reach the end of the world, where there is nowhere left to run. That is where they either die out or submit.
This explains the Irish.
One can’t look for DNA traces of the earliest inhabitants only in place X. One also has to look for traces anywhere the earliest peoples might have moved. Those gaps are very slowly filling in, but this is a slow process. We won’t live to see it done. The story is going to get rewritten many times before it settles.
What lengths they will go to in order to malign farmers and make it a crime to grow food.....
If you should ever find yourself in an existential struggle, don’t lose.
Looters will be shot on sight
Uhh, so it is a tragedy that roaming brigands were wiped out so that agriculture could flourish and fuel civilization?
If you are gonna romatisize such go join a gypsey band.
They didn’t learn not to invite Immigrants to Sweden. They are having the same problem today.
