Northern Europe‘s early history in the light of recent genetic and archaeological findings
Did you know that the earliest human history is no longer interpreted and taught by historians, but by mathematicians?
Yes, you read correctly, even if this is of course only half the truth. Archaeologists still publish excavation reports, and a few historians try their hand at depictions of early human history to satisfy the public‘s growing interest in recent years. But for some years now it has no longer been the great historians who determine the view of our earliest ancestors, but geneticists who interpret columns of numbers from computers and prescribe what historians write. Admittedly, genetic research is also the driving force behind the newly awakened enthusiasm for the lives of our own ancestors, because it has made such significant progress that it should be possible to shed light on the early history of mankind.
Instead of illuminating early history, however, archaeologists often contributed to obscuring it. Things that seemed to be archaeologically provable were discarded, and scenarios that seemed impossible and had long since been disproved are now used as doctrines.
There are various reasons for this. One essential reason is of political nature: Northern Europe as the starting point of cultural impulses is an idea that is considered forbidden thinking. The main reason given is that this view would have helped to legitimise the crimes of the National Socialists. In fact, however, science in general and historiography in particular are used at all times in every political system to legitimise one‘s own ideological actions and views. However, this should not be a reason to regulate and censor science as such and the study of human history.
This volume contrasts the doctrine based on archaeogenetics with a plausible scenario of the early history of early humans in northern Europe, based on recent archaeological and archaeogenetic findings, which are mostly misinterpreted.
In view of the fact that the majority of archaeogenetic discussions take place in the USA, it was obvious to make this publication accessible to English-speaking readers.
130 pages, numerous illustrations, paperback
ContentPreface to the english editon
Preface
Archeogenetic insights
Halpogroup research
Admixture (Autosomal group assignments)
Errors and inconsistencies in archaeogenetics
The Neanderthal - one of “us“?
„Findings“ on the phenotype of Stone Age Europeans
Does genetics disprove race?
Genetics as a political instrument
Genetics and the waves of immigration to Europe
The Reconstructed History of Northern Europe
From primate to civilisation bearer
An unknown branch of modern man?
Cultural Revolution in the Palaeolithic Age
The European man takes shape
Adaptation in Doggerland
The departure of the Northern European hunter
“Nordic“ Cultural Centre Göbekli Tepe?
The North and the “First-Megalithic“
The renewed settlement of the north: Maglemosis culture
Flood in Doggerland
Exodus and New Beginnings: The Ertebølle Culture
The overlaying of the Linear Pottery culture
Megalithic spread
End and rebirth of the old nobility
The Corded Ware Culture
Erroneous paths of research on the Y-haplogroup R
Horse domestication and chariot use
Where does the Indo-Germanic language originate?
Aryans in dispute
Upheaval and upheaval at the beginning of the Bronze Age
Bell Beakers and Aunjetitz Bronze Culture
Haplogroup I1 and the Nordic Bronze Age
Bronze Age trade connections
Early Writing in Northern Europe
Sea Peoples Storm and the End of the Bronze Age
The Dorian Migration
Review
Literature