Neolithic Lengyel culture (5000-3400 BC)
Chalcholitic Baden culture (3600–2800 BC) which developed from Lengyel culture...
Lengyel culture guys, were neolithic farmers who, just like their neighbors, Stroke-ornamented ware culture guys, liked building giant henges, enclosures oriented to the sunrises at solstices and stuff...
I talked about this in my post "Henges - Rondel enclosures"
Then (apparently) came Indo-Europeans and turned Neolithic, Old Europe, Matriarchal, Peaceful, Farming Lengyel culture into Chalcholitic, Indo-European, Patriarchal, Warrior, Cattle herding Baden culture...By presumably killing the men, taking the women...
Gimbutas and then Mallory and Adams talk about Baden culture as one which is associated with the spread of Indo-Europeans because "It possesses a number of cultural traits that have been regarded as diagnostic markers of Indo-European society"...
Like:
1. Use and breeding of domesticated horses...
3. Use of wheeled vehicles, probably pulled by cattle...
4. Building of fortified settlements...
5. Making and usage of lots and lost of metal weapons and tools...
And finally
Typical: Drunk cowboys....
So no wonder Baden dudes were seen as "Prototypical Indo-Europeanised culture dominated by Kurgan males"...
Which is funny, considering that Baden guys had Neolithic Megalith builders (I2a) and farmers (G2a) male genes...The same ones we find in their Neolithic ancestors...
Now look at the original two vessels again. Both depict a young woman. The Baden one is actually an elaboration on the Lengyel one. It actually gives us a clue who this "young woman" could be: a grain maiden from later folklore...Look at the grain sheaves arms...I talked about this in my post "Baden culture grain maiden"...
Not very Indoeuropeany...
Yes, of course, we do not see anything specifically Aryan in the vessel of the Baden culture. But this is understandable, given that the vessels were molded from clay by women and passed the pottery tradition from mother to daughter. Thus, the Old European images found themselves in the Indo-European new world. Tradition is a very tenacious thing...
ReplyDeleteThere could be many examples of how matriarchal Cretan-Minoan traditions continued to live in the patriarchal Greek-Mycenaean world. Sometimes it is even difficult to distinguish between the art of Knossos and the art of Mycenae.
That is one thing. The other thing is male genes, which are Old European genes...I think we need to redefine what Indoeuropean means...
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