You can find out more about the mysterious Gradeshnitsa Tablet from Chalcolithic Bulgaria in this new video here.

Does it have some of the earliest writing in the world or is it just decoration?

Shorts are pretty handy for highlighting specific artefacts.

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Burial of an Afanasievo adult and child. Burials of children with adults is seen in many other steppe cultures such as Yamnaya and Corded Ware derived groups.

Photo by Alexey Kovalev.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Afanasievo_burial_in_kurgan_Khuurai.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

You asked for more information about the Dispilio tablet so I made a video about it, please watch it here.

Seems they didn't preserve it properly and instead of keeping it saturated with water (like how it was found) they dried it out, which led to the engraving depth become shallower. I would imagine that's why they haven't taken a photo of it since 1993. Maybe it's decomposed now, I don't know.

They did take a sample for C14 dating though so we know when it was made (or the tree felled I guess).

Does it look like writing to you? I don't think it does but it doesn't look like it's just a chopping board either, does it?

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Infographic about mtDNA haplogroups in Paleolithic Europe

Anatolian farmers also, at a low frequency, carried a yhaplo I2 clade that seems to have spread there from Europe in around 15,000 Bp

So yeah Anatolian farmers seem to have had minor "WHG" ancestry. One Anatolian even has mtdna U5b2 a typical WHG mtdna

This is an excellent high quality channel by a map guy who does proper research, reads the actual papers, cross references them, collates the data, and creates detailed precise maps of ancient cultures, sites, and finds.

Creating the maps is the stuff we see but behind it the real work is diving into old publications, meticulously reading them, and often uncovering cool stuff.

Always impressed by how many descendants a childless man has out there in the world today.

It's always Yamnaya this, Yamnaya that. But it's a Corded Ware world.

All Descendants of the Corded Ware Culture until 1000bc, dropping soon on X after i've added labels

Roman-style signet ring from the tomb of Childeric I (d. 481 AD) depicting Childeric I, Merovingian King of the Salian Franks, with the Latin inscription CHILDIRICI REGIS ("King Childeric").