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The Indo-European invasion and the transformation of Europe, 3000-2600bc.

How exactly the Indo-European Corded Ware migrated and Formed, and its relationships to the previous cultures of Europe is poorly understood. I illustrated it in these 4 maps, showing how the Corded Ware initially migrated only to the Periphery of the GAC culture before expanding further inward, as well as illustrating the complex and dynamic changes taking place around them.

A full article on this explaining everything in detail is in the works, as well as an Animation.

Map of sites of the Matt Painted culture

Brygians, Paionians and Makedonians as part of the same language group?
My basis for this idea is the fact that the Matt-painted culture, the culture from which Phrygians sprang, also occupies the entire Paionian and Makedonian areas. This culture lasted from roughly 1600bc to the early iron age (the period just before 700bc), with some of the Iron Age sites still being attested in Makedonia and Paionia.
There is no evidence to suggest that the Makedonians moved in from the south sometime in the LBA collapse or the Iron Age, or that they were not native to the region.

The Phrygian language, if Anatolian and other Substrate influence is deducted, would not be radically different from the Mycenaean Language. Makedonian likely represented a dialect continuum inbetween "Pure Phrygian" and Greek.

The Pella Curse tablet from 400~ years later bears resemblance to the Doric dialects, which tracks with the fact that the Argead dynasty were originally Dorians and the court language of the kingdom of Makedonia was likely represented a dialect continuum inbetween "Pure Phrygian" and Greek.

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Map of Languages & Dialects in the Aegean in 700bc.

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The Archaic Aegean

A complete map of Poleis and Tribes of the Aegean in exactly 700 bc, or the 1st year of the 20th olympiad, and 494 years after the Trojan War.
Zoom-ins and thread below.

Produced from “AN INVENTORY OF ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL POLEIS” by Hansen & Nielsen (2004), the Pleiades gazetteer, Strabos Geographica, Homers Iliad and Oddysey, Hesiod, as well as various minor sources regarding Poleis territory. The map depics the De-facto controlled territory of independant Poleis and States, as well as the territories of tribal ethnes, which can be subdivided deeper in some cases.

The early Archaic Period was one of Tyrants and Oligarchs ruling over small Poleis (City-States) competing for dominance and driven by rapid population growth and a sense of claustrophobia to colonization of the Aegean, Mediterreanean and Black Seas.
Greek overseas settlement was therefore already well under way, with Euboeans founding Pithekoussai and Kyme earlier. by the decades around 700, Syracuse, Sybaris, Kroton, Tara

Full resolution can be found on Maptism: https://maptism.org/maps/bell-beaker/

The Bell Beaker culture represents the Indo-European migrations into Western Europe, as multiple ancient DNA studies have shown both with Autosomal DNA, Y-DNA, mtDNA and IBD sharing.
The dominant paternal lineage of the Bell Beaker culture was Y-Chromosome Haplogroup R1b-P312, which was absent anywhere west of the Rhine until 2600bc, and its father, R1b-L11, is found in Corded Ware males. R1b stands at 89% of all tested Beaker Males, while the dominant Megalithic Lineages of the previous period, I2a1, sits at only 5%, surviving strongest in peripheral regions far away from Central Europe. In addition to this, Beaker people almost all carry some percentage (sometimes majority) Corded Ware ancestry, with strong IBD links back to Central Europe. Materially, the Bell Beaker culture carries various Central-European elements invented in Corded Ware contexts west of the Rhine into every corner of Europe, notably Potruding Foot Beakers evolved into AOC and AOO Beakers, Begleitkeramik, Single Burials and Stone Wrist Guards. Despite this, the “Beaker Folk” were also highly syncretic with local cultures, adopting the Iberian “Maritime” Beaker, as well as Palmela Arrow-/Lance-heads, Atlantic Copper Halberds, and often re-using Megalithic Graves of the preceeding periods. Although it must be said that the extreme dominance of Y-Chromosome Haplogroup R1b-P312 reveals that Beaker Males replaced Local males in most places they migrated to, as well as introducing Corded Ware ancestry, therefore this process was likely violent in many places.

This expansion was unbelievably Rapid, with Indo-Europeans conquering all of Brittain, reaching Iberia from Germany and conquering all of France in just 100 years.

The Bell Beaker culture is the most important culture of the Late Chalcolithic / Earliest Bronze Age, defined by distinctive Bell Shaped Beakers and associated package of "warrior" or "archer" personal equipment. It runs roughly from 2600 BC to 2100 BC, with regional chronological variation. (Primarily in Iberia, where earliest forms of the Maritime Bell Beaker are as early as 2900 BC). The latest dates in Britain and Ireland stretch into the early 2nd millennium, while in Central Europe it already terminates in 2300 BC, with the transition into the Unetice Culture.

THE BELL BEAKER CULTURE
2600-2100 BC, the Indo-European conquest of Western Europe.
A Complete map of the Bell Beaker Culture (14780 Catalogued Sites) in all its forms, displaying every site, find, type, as well as supplementaries detailing Genetic Makeup, C14 dating, and Individual Find Types.

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Evolution of Dacians and Thracians:
Illustrative Graph showing the Evolution of Southeast European Cultures from Vucedol to the Iron Age, highlighting specifically the Daco Thracian branch, and omitting the Illyrian one, which continues from Cetina downward.
Based on Archaeology, since almost no Genetic material is available on the majority these Cultures.

this supports our entire >20k site Corded Ware temporal geodata at acceptable frame rates so hopefully you will see the coming Gigadrop for what it is

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An imageboard taking GIS geodata you can fork and edit (including e.g. the DOI you sourced) rather than actual images is coming soon on an invite-only basis, btw