Bronze Age Collapse & resultant trade breakdown led to cession of bronze production in the Don River Basin. Locals reverted to stone & bone tools, then figured out how to make iron tools. Their neighbors adopted iron over the next few centuries. pic.twitter.com/HoDk52cLuH
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) August 29, 2020
As bloody as the world wars were, they weren’t particularly bad by historical standards. The 17th century was uniquely bad for 2nd millennium AD, with Little Ice Age & glut of specie leading to state collapses & population decline across Eurasia.
There are no traces of permanent Corded Ware settlements anywhere - strongly supporting that they were nomadic cattle herders. Only after Bell Beaker arrival in 2300 BC do sedentary agricultural settlements return. pic.twitter.com/GkPluSgbbt
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) May 3, 2020
Shennan: massive EEF population growth in Ireland 4000-3600 BC, followed by population decline & reforestation 3600-3400 BC. pic.twitter.com/HksEl16OjH
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) June 18, 2020
Resurgence of Hunter-Gatherer ancestry in Copper Age Balkan EEF populations of mid 4000s & return of hunter-gatherers cultural customs. EEF Cucuteni\u2013Trypillians experienced this too - were 80% EEF, 10% EHG, 10% WHG in ancestry, showing they mixed with local HGs. pic.twitter.com/Tqf5yoc99U
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) July 26, 2020
Please note that there was also terrible flooding in the Balkans in 6200 BC & the EEF invaded Europe from Anatolia via Greece at the same time. pic.twitter.com/oSS3r3l2AP
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) May 7, 2020
The first dark age from 8300 BC to 7500 BC pic.twitter.com/8ONTVjB48X
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) April 23, 2019
Primitive farming as early as 21000 BC pic.twitter.com/rZsVhGasi9
— Nemets (@Peter_Nimitz) April 22, 2019