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Jiang credits Maria Gimbutas with arguing that Old Europe was peaceful, woman-honoring, egalitarian, artistic, and later conquered by aggressive patriarchal Yamnaya culture.
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Maria Gimbutas
Jiang credits Maria Gimbutas with arguing that Old Europe was peaceful, woman-honoring, egalitarian, artistic, and later conquered by aggressive patriarchal Yamnaya culture.
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"Okay? That's why we're able to figure out that these are nomadic pastoralists. Therefore, they must be from the steppes. Okay? And then through..."
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"Okay? So, if you have a chance, please do study her work. And so, let's read what she wrote. Okay? So, this is the..."
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"Instead, they built magnificent tombs, shrines, and temples, comfortable houses in moderately sized villages, and created superb pottery and sculptures. This was a long..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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