Can someone summarize the migrations, conquests and displacements in Europe before the Bronze age? Who, what, when, where? What did they speak? What impact did they have on the way of life?
Who were the European hunter-gatherers? Is it just a generic term for a diverse set of peoples who inhabited Europe or was there a common origin and such?
Are the Early European Farmers just some colonists from the middle east who brought farming?
Were the Indo-Europeans violent subjugators?
>>469420
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>What did they speak?
how the fuck could we know? it was before the written tongue and they've all been dead for thousands of years.
>>469694
Conjecture is that they spoke a langue similar to basque given the theory that basque is an isolated population of what might have been a larger language area.
>>470990
I'm a proponent of the Aquitanian hypothesis, but really it's just as likely Basque was a language isolate like there are in so many mountainous regions.
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tl;dr
>toba eruption in India 70 000 years ago
>initiates a large scale migration west
>humans meet Neanderthals in the Levant, possibly the Middle East or even Central Asia (Altai Mountains)
>40 000 years ago: they mix and produce Cro Magnon
>Cro Magnon spreads across Europe and initiates the Aurignacian Culture
>neanderthals pushed out, survives at the latest in Gibraltar 24 000 years ago
>Cro Magnon and their descendants were Haplogroup I
>these are pushed south as the Ice Age commences
>they re-populate the area when the Ice recedes around 10-8 000 bc
>neolithic influences come with haplogroups E, J and G, small scale
then after that, the Indo-Europeans came
>>471791
How do we know this holy shit
>>472130
Spooky skellies desu
>>472130
it's all in the bible senpai
>>471791
>>neolithic influences come with haplogroups E, J and G, small scale
R1B has also been found in Europe in the Neolithic, albeit a different branch than the main groups in Europe today, V88.
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>>469420
It's a little known fact that paleolithic Europe was mainly inhabited by "Paleo-Europeans" (cavepeople) and Levantine/Semitic migrants during the Neolithic before Indo-European snowniggers came along.
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>>472209
Recent comparisons between the Sardinians' genome and that of some individuals from the Neolithic and the early Chalcolithic, who lived in the Alpine (Oetzi), German, and Hungarian regions, showed considerable similarities between the two populations, while at the same time consistent differences between the prehistoric samples and the present inhabitants of the same geographical areas were noted.[61] From this it can be deduced that, while central and northern Europe have undergone significant demographic changes due to post-Neolithic migrations, presumably from the eastern periphery of Europe (Pontic-Caspian steppe) and possibly from Scandinavia,[62] Southern Europe and Sardinia in particular were affected less; Sardinians and Basques appear to be the populations that have best preserved the Neolithic legacy of Western Europe.[61]
Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141021/ncomms6257/full/ncomms6257.html
