For those interested, I did not delete my Jungle diary videos, I just unlisted them. You can see them in this playlist if you like jungles and tropical fauna etc

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcroOUap-NynwiA0vlke3Q6vAb3rkHpnh

Many academics blocked me on Twitter before I deleted the profile. Now I know this was partly because of this little person. He also campaigns for the banning of the Zwarte Piet folk tradition in Holland. Why does physiognomy never lie?

https://twitter.com/SLevelt/status/1184763466437054465?s=20

New bog idol from Ireland found
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/gortnacrannagh-idol-ireland-1234601873/

Dzungarian Basin is north of Tarim and these oldest samples do appear to be Afanasievo derived and therefore could be the source of Tocharian languages, and if so then the language only moved south into Tarim basin quite late, but the early Tarim mummies do not appear to be Tocharians or even, as I speculated in my video, Iranic speaking Aryans, rather an isolated refugia of ice-age like people predominantly descended from Ancient North Eurasians and West Siberian Hunter-Gatherers. WSHG themselves were 72.5% ANE, 7.5% West European Hunter-Gatherer, and 20% Ancient East Asian.
We can't say what language these Siberian mammoth hunter-like people of Tarim spoke, although we know Tocharian and Iranic both entered the Tarim basin region later on.

https://youtu.be/OB8eeVd7R_M

Interesting recent discovery out of Anatolia on the Greek pantheon, a statue dedicated to the Goddess Hygieia discovered. Of note is the fact that this goddess of health is the root of the modern English word “hygiene”.

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/amp/statue-of-greek-health-goddess-hygieia-unearthed-167210

Sketch: Various #Solar Artefacts (Central Europe, Bronze Age)
From: Celestial Symbolism in Central European Later Prehistory - Case Studies from the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin (Pásztor, 2014)

Continued ...Since we couldn’t find any Yamnaya clothing, we referred to images of clothing from other eneolithic steppe cultures, namely the Mariupol culture and the Azov-Dnieper culture from the Mamaj Gora cemetery and also referred to female clothing of the later Bronze age Andronovo culture. The burial caps are common to all, and since Yamnaya fall in between those two, it is probably safe to say such hats were worn by their men and women too. We can see from Yamnaya stelae that the men wore pointed beards and sometimes went about naked or semi-naked and also that they wore sandals but Christian depicted this man wearing shoes like those of the Azov-Dnieper culture. Trousers do not appear in the archaeological record until around 2000 BC, but leg wraps are found around Neolithic Europe and Christian has given him these as they would be useful in the colder months when riding a horse.

They are both wearing braids because linguistic evidence reveals there was a PIE word for hair braids. The man has silver hair coils on his braids as these are attested in many Yamnaya burials as are dog /wolf teeth necklaces.

There is evidence for tattooing in the Yamnaya offshoot Catacomb Culture. We can see the tattoos on finger bones where the lack of flesh between skin and bone resulted in stained bones. We should presume that these tattoos covered other parts of their body too but we cannot tell for sure where, however we have Iron Age Scythian tattoos as a reference tool.

Iron Age Scythians also used deer antlers as cheek pieces for their horses, and the pre-Yamnaya Sredny Stog culture also had what appear to be antler cheek pieces so Christian has depicted the Yamnaya horses with similar tack wear.

The weapons and pottery depicted are directly attested in Yamnaya archaeology.

Dr Duchesne writing about the Indo-Europeans and arguing they were a people with distinct social and aristocratic qualities in 2009, before the genomic revolution which vindicated the steppe hypothesis once and for all.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353466828_The_Aristocratic_Military_Ethos_of_Indo-Europeans_and_the_Primordial_Origins_of_Western_Civilization

"Let the Churches ask themselves why there is no revolt against the dogmas of mathematics though there is one against the dogmas of religion. It is not that the mathematical dogmas are more comprehensible. The law of inverse squares is as incomprehensible to the common man as the Athanasian creed. It is not that science is free from legends, witchcraft, miracles, biographic boostings of quacks as heroes and saints, and of barren scoundrels as explorers and discoverers. On the contrary, the iconography and hagiology of Scientism are as copious as they are mostly squalid. But no student of science has yet been taught that specific gravity consists in the belief that Archimedes jumped out of his bath and ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting Eureka, Eureka, or that the law of inverse squares must be discarded if anyone can prove that Newton was never in an orchard in his life. When some unusually conscientious or enterprising bacteriologist reads the pamphlets of Jenner, and discovers that they might have been written by an ignorant but curious and observant nurserymaid, and could not possibly have been written by any person with a scientifically trained mind, he does not feel that the whole edifice of science has collapsed and crumbled, and that there is no such thing as smallpox. It may come to that yet; for hygiene, as it forces its way into our schools, is being taught as falsely as religion is taught there; but in mathematics and physics the faith is still kept pure, and you may take the law and leave the legends without suspicion of heresy. Accordingly, the tower of the mathematician stands unshaken whilst the temple of the priest rocks to its foundation." GB Shaw

Another series of a terrible SKY TV historical drama set in Britain at the time of the Roman invasion anachronistically populated with Sub Saharans. If you watch any TV at this stage you are a lower form of life on this earth tbh.

I didn't realise that the idea Bell Beakers were an extension of Corded Ware culture and not of a Portuguese innovation is actually pretty old and predates the DNA evidence by a long way.The following was published in 1997:

“Like the Corded Ware vessels, these Bell Beakers were also typically placed in single male burials, often accompanied by weaponry and covered by a circular mound. They thus represent a diaspora of continental north-west European practices among largely alien populations, carrying the aggressive, individualizing ideology of this area to new parts of Europe. Whereas Corded Ware beakers were usually buried with stone battleaxes, Bell-Beakers are generally found with other weapons: daggers, and archery equipment such as triangular barbed-flint arrowheads and wrist guards of fine stone...This martial image was perhaps completed by leather jerkins and later by woven fabrics, held by a belt with an ornamental stone/bone ring to secure it...Early Bell-Beakers display the cords and thongs that distinguished their Corded Ware predecessors; perhaps the later zone ornament, too, is significant, for the Greek word zone means a belt, and the elite of Greek warriors are still evzones, 'the well-belted ones', while black belts still symbolize prowess in the martial arts. The imagery of third-millennium Europe was replete with such symbols, and Bell-Beaker graves expressed the warrior values appropriate to a more mobile and opportunistic way of life.”

Sherratt, A., ‘The Emergence of Elites: Earlier Bronze Age Europe, 2500-1300 BC," in Barry Cunlifee, ed„ The Oxford
Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe, 250

Three sceptres, three bronze daggers, a hatchet, a chisel, and several other metal artefacts from the Únětice culture have been unearthed by a farmer during agricultural works in the Sulęcin county of Poland.
Dated roughly to about 2300–1800 BC.

Pretty much the most metal weapons I ever laid eyes on

Bronze-Age Artefacts Discovered In-tact, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Two vessels unearthed in 2020 have already been analysed, revealing women’s or children’s jewellery, such as bracelets, anklets and pendants at the bottom. Next, one of them contained a layer of tools and weapons, while the other had chariot decorations, riding equipment and wheel parts in it.

(Pictured: Axe blades)
Source: Pour la Science (Fr)

suggested new names for ancient populations:
WHG = the Cheddar men
EHG = Grugniks
WSH = the barrow folk

I will do a Jive Talk about the new Bohemian Corded Ware and neolithic replacements paper.