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The third major innovation is horse domestication, which Jiang says took at least 3,000 years because horses are hardwired to flee humans.
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Horse Domestication
The reconstructed vocabulary lets Jiang infer four traits of the Proto-Indo-Europeans: wheels, dairy consumption, relatively few agricultural terms, and horse domestication.
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The reconstructed vocabulary lets Jiang infer four traits of the Proto-Indo-Europeans: wheels, dairy consumption, relatively few agricultural terms, and horse domestication.
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Jiang says horse domestication took thousands of years because horses are biologically inclined to flee danger, and Yamnaya skeletons show riding-related changes.
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"What happens to your body? Exactly, okay? You become very tall, very strong, okay? So because of these two innovations, the people in the..."
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"But they kept on trying because the ability to ride horses was very important for their society and their economy. And so now they..."
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"So any questions so far? All right. Now, the problem for linguists is how do you piece together the language, okay? Because this language..."
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"The culture and lifestyle of the Proto -Indo -Europeans, okay? Does that make sense? So from these words, we're able to figure out four..."
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"So these people, not only did they invent the wheel, but they changed their system, biological system, so that they became lactose tolerant. They..."
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"gene in the horse for excitability okay basically the horse is programmed to run away if it sees danger a human being and it..."
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Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
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Gimbutas's Old Europe becomes Jiang's Paradise Lost: a Mother Goddess civilization where art, writing, sexual agency, and nonviolent social control show that war, property, and patriarchy are historical arrivals, not human nature.
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