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Gimbutas's model, as Jiang presents it, that Old Europe was conquered by steppe Yamnaya/Kurgan pastoralists whose burial practices indicate warriors, property, and male dominance.
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Kurgan hypothesis
Gimbutas's model, as Jiang presents it, that Old Europe was conquered by steppe Yamnaya/Kurgan pastoralists whose burial practices indicate warriors, property, and male dominance.
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The Kurgan hypothesis is presented as a burial-based contrast: communal farmer burials imply egalitarianism and little private property, while solitary Yamnaya burials with weapons and animals imply warriors, male domination, and private property.
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Jiang says the once-mocked Gimbutas thesis has now been confirmed by DNA evidence.
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"...Yanaya people, okay? And this is what we know as the Kurgan hypothesis. So let me explain what the Kurgan hypothesis is. We know..."
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"...make sense? So this is what we refer to as the Kurgan hypothesis. And for the longest time, this is something that Maria Gumbates..."
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"Okay? For men, men have always been in charge. There's always been wars. And there's always been wealth and money to motivate people to..."
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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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