lvysaur
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His claim: Aryans were European farmers, invaded by Steppe pastoralists ("Turanians") who killed their men and mixed with their women. So far this is very standard.
The mixed offspring inherited their mother's tongue, AKA the Indoeuropean (IE) languages, and then one branch expanded to Iran and North India. They falsely called themselves "Arya" because they inherited this vocabulary from their subjugated mothers.
I had related suspicions long ago. For instance, Bell Beakers (west Europe) are contemporaneous with Sintashta and Andronovo (Central Asia). Yet there is only one IE family in Asia (Indo-Iranian, two if you count Tocharian), while there are 7 in the Euro-Caucasus region (Armenian, Greek, Illyrian, Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, Romance).
Despite similar dates of arrival, European IEs show much more linguistic diversity. This is easily explained if you shift paradigms: It was the Early European Farmers (EEFs, who came from the Anatolian farmers) who spoke the IE languages, NOT YAMNAYA STEPPE. After being conquered, they transmitted them to the Yamnaya-EEF mixes that populate Europe today. This pushes back the IE language date 7000 years in Europe (explaining the diversity), while maintaining the same date (4000 years ago) for India/Iran.
He thinks carb-eating, vegetarian people are farmers (aka Aryans)
meat-eating, omnivorous people are hunter-gatherers (aka Gentiles)
herding people are pastoralists (aka Jews) -- I don't agree fully with him on this one, but whatever.
This blog is a rabbithole of counter-narrative things. But his stuff is very well researched and reasoned, and I've learned a lot from it over many years. I think @MatheusPN @gately and @cjm might appreciate some of this content.
I am posting a link to his content here because some of it got taken down, and I feel his content is useful and should be available for curious minds to read. It details the history of farming via region as follows:
Japan
China
India
Mesopotamia
Africa
Europe
America
LINK TO CONTENT HERE
The mixed offspring inherited their mother's tongue, AKA the Indoeuropean (IE) languages, and then one branch expanded to Iran and North India. They falsely called themselves "Arya" because they inherited this vocabulary from their subjugated mothers.
I had related suspicions long ago. For instance, Bell Beakers (west Europe) are contemporaneous with Sintashta and Andronovo (Central Asia). Yet there is only one IE family in Asia (Indo-Iranian, two if you count Tocharian), while there are 7 in the Euro-Caucasus region (Armenian, Greek, Illyrian, Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, Romance).
Despite similar dates of arrival, European IEs show much more linguistic diversity. This is easily explained if you shift paradigms: It was the Early European Farmers (EEFs, who came from the Anatolian farmers) who spoke the IE languages, NOT YAMNAYA STEPPE. After being conquered, they transmitted them to the Yamnaya-EEF mixes that populate Europe today. This pushes back the IE language date 7000 years in Europe (explaining the diversity), while maintaining the same date (4000 years ago) for India/Iran.
He thinks carb-eating, vegetarian people are farmers (aka Aryans)
meat-eating, omnivorous people are hunter-gatherers (aka Gentiles)
herding people are pastoralists (aka Jews) -- I don't agree fully with him on this one, but whatever.
This blog is a rabbithole of counter-narrative things. But his stuff is very well researched and reasoned, and I've learned a lot from it over many years. I think @MatheusPN @gately and @cjm might appreciate some of this content.
I am posting a link to his content here because some of it got taken down, and I feel his content is useful and should be available for curious minds to read. It details the history of farming via region as follows:
Japan
China
India
Mesopotamia
Africa
Europe
America
LINK TO CONTENT HERE
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