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Details of the bird’s head sword scabbard found in Nydam bog, Denmark. Dating to the 4th century. The ancestors of the English were in this region at the time. This is before detailed zoomorphic interlace took off
More scabbard designs from Nydam bog - see the horses and serpents are the main animals. 3rd/4th century
Late Bronze Age Iberian stele with a spear head.
Some may say the prominence of weapons in the archaeological record is misleading survivorship bias of artefacts and not representative of the culture in general.
If a guy went to the trouble of carving an ak47 in stone I wouldn’t question his commitment
Some may say the prominence of weapons in the archaeological record is misleading survivorship bias of artefacts and not representative of the culture in general.
If a guy went to the trouble of carving an ak47 in stone I wouldn’t question his commitment
Black washing at the archaeological museum of Cantabria, Spain.
The red lady exhibit doesn’t explain why a Sub Saharan African model is used to represent an 18k ybp Magdalenian woman. They mention DNA but not that she was already hugely diverged from Africans.
Out of Africa migration currently dated to about 55,000 years before she was alive!
She is closer in time and genetics to modern Europeans than to ancient or modern blacks.
The red lady exhibit doesn’t explain why a Sub Saharan African model is used to represent an 18k ybp Magdalenian woman. They mention DNA but not that she was already hugely diverged from Africans.
Out of Africa migration currently dated to about 55,000 years before she was alive!
She is closer in time and genetics to modern Europeans than to ancient or modern blacks.
Today I hiked on the trail of the Reconquista in Asturias down which the gallant Goth Pelagius chased the Muslims, beginning the reconquest of Spain! 🇪🇸
New JIVE TALK is live with an expert Bronze Age sword smith providing insights into the forgotten world of weapons and war
https://youtu.be/HoL7xO4j99c?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/HoL7xO4j99c?feature=shared
YouTube
The Greatest Living Bronze Sword Smith
Neil Burridge of @BronzeAgeSwords is an accomplished sword smith and widely considered the greatest living smith of historical replica cast bronze swords and daggers. He has cast and forged hundreds of replica blades from Ancient Greek Mycenaean, to Nordic…
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A new paper on Goth and Suebians in Iberia. Suebian elites in Spain show almost entirely Northern European ancestry (92-95%). 14 Visigoth burial samples had greater than 80% Northwest European Ancestry (3 of which were full NW Euro). There were also 27 samples with mixed NW Euro and Iberian ancestry. Dates from 4-6th century.
The Germanics did not leave a genetic legacy in Iberia though
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614606v1
The Germanics did not leave a genetic legacy in Iberia though
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614606v1
bioRxiv
Disparate demographic impacts of the Roman Colonization and the Migration Period in the Iberian Peninsula
It has been unclear how the periods of Roman and later Germanic political control shaped the demography of the Iberian Peninsula and how Iberia differs in these respects from other parts of the Roman Empire. We report genome-wide data from 248 ancient individuals…
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Amber necklaces from the Corded Ware culture (Single Grave Culture), Denmark.
Photo Credits to Roberto Fortuna and Kira Ursem, Nationalmuseet Denmark
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amber_necklaces,_Denmark._Neolithic_-_Bronze_Age.png#mw-jump-to-license
Photo Credits to Roberto Fortuna and Kira Ursem, Nationalmuseet Denmark
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amber_necklaces,_Denmark._Neolithic_-_Bronze_Age.png#mw-jump-to-license
The WSH physical type looks much like Northern Europeans in terms of bone structure
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Man of the Khvalynsk Culture
Khvalynsk were part of the Eneolithic Steppe horizon along with Sredny Stog and the Berezhnovka–Progress group. They are not an ancestor of Yamnaya or Corded Ware but more like an “Uncle” culture. They formed from an admixture of a steppe Eneolithic group that moved northward and admixed with local hunter gathers in the Volga region. Sredny Stog would be like a “brother culture” which came out of a similar population but instead of admixture with Volga hunter gathers they instead had admixed with Ukraine N populations.
Source of reconstruction: https://sapiensbio.ru/rekonstrukczii/avtor-nechvaloda-a-i-graficheskaya-rekonstrukcziya-licza-po-cherepu-muzhchiny-hvalynskoj-kultury/
Khvalynsk were part of the Eneolithic Steppe horizon along with Sredny Stog and the Berezhnovka–Progress group. They are not an ancestor of Yamnaya or Corded Ware but more like an “Uncle” culture. They formed from an admixture of a steppe Eneolithic group that moved northward and admixed with local hunter gathers in the Volga region. Sredny Stog would be like a “brother culture” which came out of a similar population but instead of admixture with Volga hunter gathers they instead had admixed with Ukraine N populations.
Source of reconstruction: https://sapiensbio.ru/rekonstrukczii/avtor-nechvaloda-a-i-graficheskaya-rekonstrukcziya-licza-po-cherepu-muzhchiny-hvalynskoj-kultury/