You need to be wistfully pondering the mysteries of the deep. You need to be pipe smoking and saying “aye” while staring into the distance

Graphic showing the age of attested Germanic language groups from Dagfinn Skre’s new book “The Northern Routes to Kingship”

Interesting talk on Corded ware: using big data to identify the CW rite at a macro level.

Interesting point: the CW genetic signal expands before the burial rite appears. In other words the blood precedes the culture which follows afterwards.

https://youtu.be/ryvxWKafIlw?feature=shared