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Viking graves are evidence that burial was not only transport to an afterworld but a public act of remembering the life and achievements of the dead.
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Because the transition to farming remains unexplained, Jiang says the lecture can only construct theories from archaeological, anthropological, psychological or neurological, and primatological evidence.
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Modern archaeological searches are said to have found no concrete evidence for Noah's Ark, Eden, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or Moses.
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Jiang argues that before David nothing in the Bible has been proven historical, and the Bible's events do not connect cleanly as either chronology or pure fiction.
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Jiang's evidentiary basis for IVC peace is that excavated cities appear intact and graves do not reveal a distinct warrior caste or military equipment, though he notes the evidence is not solid.
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Jiang says current evidence leans toward the IVC being peaceful, but future excavation could revise that view because burial practices and burial locations remain unclear.
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Jiang presents the IVC as a relatively new archaeological discovery, known for only about the past century and reconstructed through British excavation work.
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Jiang cites archaeological and textual evidence for Mycenaean revolt and elite extraction: burned palaces with surrounding houses intact, written records of the palace economy, and royal graves becoming wealthier over time.
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Jiang says archaeology and DNA evidence have confirmed many hypotheses that linguists first generated from Proto-Indo-European vocabulary.
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"...we know our evidence our understanding of the Vikings comes from archaeology. So we are able to dig up their graves. And what we..."
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"So we're not able to reconstruct her story but obviously those who knew her knew exactly what the story represented. Another example where man..."
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"creator of this world and that he is the one who this to be literally true okay but in the past 400 years 300..."
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"mean ten plagues is a travesty and a disaster on the Egyptian people no record of that the parting of the sea no record..."
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"What we know as the Yamnaya people, all right? So this trade network, it's very, very complex. And everyone is involved in some capacity..."
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"been built on top of or destroyed, meaning there might have been some fires or there might have been some warfare, okay? But with..."
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"...the British who discovered these cities and started the work in archaeology to start to reconstruct their civilization. Okay? All right. But thanks for..."
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"And the reason why is, we can dig up, Mycenaean Greece, okay? The palace, and we, and what we see is, the palace is..."
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"Okay? Horses are excited. So it took thousands of years for these people, the Proto Indo Europeans, to domesticate the horse, which means they..."
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"And as you can see from those pictures, they're beautiful, right? And they're extremely creative, artistic. And so I want to look at three..."
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"So there are a lot of guesses, okay? And the case that I will present to you today is my own personal interpretation based..."
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"...From which we can collect evidence The first discipline is called archaeology Archaeology is just the study of the past. So basically you go..."
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