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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

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/

Placenames in England that have a direct connection to Wōden include Wednesbury and Wednesfield in Staffordshire, Woodnesborough and Wormhill in Kent, Wenslow and Wensley in Bedfordshire, and Wensley in Derbyshire. Grimspound also connects to Wōden through His epithet Grim - which in Old Norse is Grímr - meaning "hooded one."

Another example is Adam's Grave in Wiltshire, a Neolithic long barrow called Wōdnesbeorg during the Anglo-Saxon period. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle mentions two battles that occurred at Wōdnesbeorg in 592 AD and 715 AD:

592 AD: Her micel wælfill wæs æt Woddes beorge, Ceawlin wæs ut adrifen. "There was great slaughter at Woden's hill, and Ceawlin was driven out."

715 AD: Her Ine Ceolred fuhton æt Woddes beorge. "There Ine and Ceolred fought at Woden's hill."

Wōden's Hill was important as a strategic military position during the Anglo-Saxon period because it lay between the Ridgeway and the medieval earthworks Wansdyke (Wōden's Dyke). These locations also show Wōden's active participation in the natural and man-made landscape and the events that occur on them.

Neolithic monuments have a strong connection to Wōden, and Wōden's Hill serves as an example of the spiritual and religious dimension these monuments hold because they were constructed by our ancestors in the Neolithic period, linking us and our ancestors themselves into prehistory.

Wōden's connection to prehistoric monuments and the natural landscape is a reminder of His ultimate dominion over creation and the extent of His creational power.

Vǫluspá in the Poetic Edda is a strong reminder in the Old Norse literature on earth's creation by Óðinn and His potent ability to reshape titanic mythic forces:

"At the dawn of days,
Did Ymir wake,
Neither sand nor sea,
Nor song of waves,
Earth was not,
Nor heavens high,
A gaping void,
Of grass still shy

Then Bórr's sons (Óðinn, Villi, Vé) lifted the land,
Miðgarðr they made;
The sun from the south,
Warmed the stones of earth,
And green was the ground,
With growing leeks."

Wōden's Hill pictured above.

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The LBK was a patriarchal, warlike society of freedom loving settlers who continually expanded the frontier of Neolithic society across Europe.

They also built the largest structures the world had ever seen. But what were they like, and why did they build these enormous longhouses?

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Artifacts from the Cernavodă culture (which is estimated to have existed from 4000 BC – 3200 BC). This culture shows similarities to Sredny Stog and the Early European farmer cultures of the Gumelnița–Kodžadermen-Karanovo VI complex which it replaced. They are a candidate for the origins of the Proto-Anatolian branch (Western Route Hypothesis).

Source: (Penske et al. 2023)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10412445/, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=145060757

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I've spoken about the British origins of European bronzization before and it surprises and perhaps upsets some people.

We still live with this pervasive concept sometimes called ex oriente lux. The idea that all civilising influence - the light of civilisation - flows from east (meaning the near east / middle east) outwards.

This in large part comes from the Christian tradition, the Holy Land etc. But also the ancient greek world being eastern Mediterranean oriented, and the discovery and exploration of ancient civilisations like the Egyptians and Sumerians by western scholars.

It persists in part because in some ways it is true! But we should be aware that it is a preconception.

This is also partly explains why so many people are obsessed with "the Phoenicians" and comment on my Nordic Bronze Age videos that the local rock art was produced by Phoenicians or depicts them. Even though that idea is ridiculous and impossible (ie Phoenicians never sailed to Scandinavia and the rock art pre-dates their existence by centuries).

But ex oriente lux ergo Phoenicians

(Them being made as aids for weight loss is especially funny)

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The Sredny Stog culture had some evidence of limited agriculture. This fits well with what we know about reconstructed Proto-Indo-European vocabulary, which shows a good amount of vocabulary related to pastoralism but with some agricultural terms. Archeologist Nadezhda Kotova argues based on archeology, that Sredny Stog had both pastoralism and agriculture. One piece of evidence for agricultural activity were the discovery of imprints on some local pottery. Kotova claims the imprints show the following plants: Emmer wheat, barley, proso millet, bitter vetch, and maybe peas.

Source (page 124 of the pdf): https://www.academia.edu/19575239/Early_Eneolithic_in_the_Pontic_Steppe

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In 4000 BC Ukraine, the people of the Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia culture began building enormous settlements of thousands of houses, covering hundreds of hectares, with thousands of people.

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