In my recent video on the Yamnaya people, I mentioned that there is evidence of early smithing of meteoric Iron, in the form of a blade, among the Catacomb culture. It turns out this was also done by the Yamnaya people too. The Boldyrevo I Kurgan had several meteoric iron objects. The reconstruction pictured is of the Yamnaya man who was buried with these iron weapons, which before analysis, were presumed to be made of copper alloys.

https://nplus1.ru/news/2021/07/19/meteoric-iron

I am experimenting with the image generator in ChatGPT to help create educational visualizations of bronze age steppe cultures.

The first image is of a Fatyanovo burial and the second image is of a Yamnaya man in front of a wagon. I uploaded into the prompts some of my artistic reconstructions in order to help guide the output. I then made minor edits to both images to increase accuracy.

The axe in the Yamnaya image was inspired by the axe artifact in this image linked below:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yamna_1.png

The Irish annals depict Gaels voluntarily going apostate and adopting Norse culture and religious practices.

There was a fairly distinct Thor cult presence in Ireland, as I have indicated in this post.

Excerpts from The Memory of the Norse in Ireland in Middle Irish Dynastic Narratives by Ann Caroline Humphrey, 2023.