TheBeakerLady

🐴🐺Indo-European language family tree with corresponding archaeological cultures🐺🐴

The Yamnaya lifestyle was characterised by massively increased mobility, compared to those Pontic Steppe societies before c. 3500 BC. Not only in wagons but also in river transport up and down the mighty rivers crossing the steppe - Dnieper, Don, Volga, Ural - but also around the shores of the Black Sea. The coastal trade linked the steppe people with Old Europe around the lower Danube in the west and on the eastern shores there was a trade route passing the Caucasus, and so ultimately linked the steppe societies with Mesopotamia. David Anthony talks about this.

Wagons, sleds, and even one boat were found in a Western Yamnaya subculture. This is the first Yamnaya boat I have seen. Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h5ZbEQ7vi-zfvsTazPlPtaW5yhXLCVJO/view?pli=1 p. 92

Qpadm model of Mycenaeans(Delphi)📊:

🌾Anatolian Neolithic Farmers-76.8% 🏹Western Steppe Herders-18.8% 🌾Natufian-2.3% 🌾Iranian Neolithic Farmers-2.1%

Made by 🇦🇱Arberian and Arch

Interesting genetic channel I was introduced to. It focuses on QpAdm models with both modern and ancient populations.

Man of the Sredny Stog culture based on an anthropological bust. This was made in collaboration with @upas0124. Sredny Stog is considered to be early PIE in the steppe hypothesis and is the direct ancestors of the Yamnaya. They were pastoralists who practiced some limited agriculture (and also engaged in some fishing and hunting). They lived near river valleys and traded with groups in the Balkans and the Caucasus. They are the builders of some of the earliest kurgans and had similar burial customs to the Yamnaya. They wore cloths decorated with shell, copper, and animal bone/teeth beads. Some burials included copper jewelry as well.

Check out this awesome Bell Beaker reconstruction by Remy on Twitter. Show him some support by retweeting: https://twitter.com/Re_my_06/status/1791785863891845356?s=19

Awesome

https://arkaim-center.ru/sites/default/files/3D/index.html A virtual tour of bronze age Sintashta settlements, including some of the Kurgan burial mounds.

Man of the Andronovo culture from Bronze Age Kazakhstan - slightly updated version of my older artistic reconstruction.