I have no special attachment to "R1b", Italic or otherwise. I don't even know my father's y dna line, nor do I care. I leave this kind of atavistic nonsense to you guys.
If this is a nonsens why are you occupying yourself by this stuff?
But only becasue of that nonsense, you can know such
things, becasue nonsens was a reason and still is, to begin
making reaserch in this subspace of genetics.
If every haplogroup and every subhaplotype would be
spreding in similar persentage on the whole earth - no
one would be interested in that knoledge - exactly as
no one is interested, about haplogroups of the gen of
the smallest toe on the left leg, and this is the reason
also, why mt are much more useless than Y especially
that there is no certain, that mt is in strait female line.
Also noone is claiming that becasue of his mtDNA he is
someone, becasue with mt is not biding any tradition,
tribe, language or even attitude (as your as example).
I also have no special attachment to the Indo-Europeans.
And this is the reason, why we are talking about Indoeuropeans.
Females don't care, and they never created such thing similar to
Indo-European even in relatuvely smaller size. Why they do not
care? Becasue they must be elastic to fit to the clan of husband.
I'm perfectly aware that the language I speak and much of the culture I inherited owes a great deal to them, but that doesn't stop me from finding a lot of the hallmarks of the Indo-European culture very unattractive,
No one (ey least I) is claiming, that everything what IEs did was wonderfull.
This is rather a matter of identity. You cannot be noone...

But you cannot
also be someone who you are not. So if some one is I1, he cannot claim that
he is R1, and this who is R1 cannot claim that he is E1. He can be interestet
in that stuff, learn language, culture, aso - but - be - cannot, one of.
and I think it's a damn shame that the Balkan cultures fell.
It was just the most wonderfull thing which IEs could do for humankind!

It was awefull and disguesting civilisation... on the level of pornopeasants.
Every time we claw ourselves up toward some kind of civilization, less advanced cultures from the fringes bring it all crashing down and we have to start building it up all over again. This has been repeated ad nauseam throughout human history.
This is evolution in which you claim to belive - as always hypocriticly

Bad civilisations must fall, and on their place must be created better one.
So, whether the proto Indo-European language first developed south of the Caucasus or north of it is immaterial to me,I although as I've opined before, on balance I think the Pontic-Caspian steppe is the "least bad" option.
It really dosn't matter where - it could be even in New Zealand.

I can;t understand, why some want the homland in their place?
Originating of IE in their county doesn't make them Indoeuropeans,
the same, as lthe fact, that neanderthals were living in France,
does not make the Aquitanians a neandertals...
eird combination of "ethnic" or "racialist" ideology combined with macho posturing some of you guys do.
And again... it is really some beg problem for you, becasue you see this everywhere...
As to culture, it's clear to me that other than the domestication of the horse and the marrying of wheeled vehicles and pastoralism, everything else was borrowed either from the Balkans or from Maykop. There's nothing wrong with that. I actually admire the Indo-Europeans for their ability to take technology from other, more advanced cultures, adapt it to their own particular environment and then make further developments on their own.
At least something in wich we can agree...
But if they borrow something, they did better use from this things.
for example Europe borrowed paper and gunpowder from China, and
numerals from India, but europeans made better use from this things.
Perhaps you should stop projecting your own world view, prejudices, agenda, and inability to be objective about history onto other people. I'd also advise using less emotion and more reason when attempting to understand pre-history.
:banghead:
Tomenable is the one, who is very resonable, but not careless like you, and yet to
little focused on his IE identity, what - I hope - he will change after his Y results
early graves were communal,
No, they were rather some kind of cementarym. Communal
burial in gimbuts OE it is amassburial. Cementery - this are
individual graves in close space, but it is not communal mass
burial in one huge pit like in one womb of (tfu) Godess Earth...
Perhaps they hadn't imported enough "Teal" wives yet, with their superior culture?
Perhabs.
But this superior culture was not good enaugh.
Principles are more important than beakers.
IE had better principles, so they won, and
made a good use from this superior beakers.
As for their language, according to Anthony, perhaps by 4,000 BC people in the western steppe tribes were speaking "archaic" dialects of "proto Indo-European" similar to "Anatolian".
They could even speak in some dead language - it does not change the
thing, that they were the same people, whatever language they spoke...
