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Does this mean that the western branches like Germanic and Italo-Celtic are merely Indo-European-ized rather than properly so? It being further from the core area? I was always curious how the process of the linguistic spread happened, whether through migration, trade, prestige language/culture...

Heh, pretty interesting. We think of them as using simple stone and wood tools, but they were capable of a good deal more. It's also interesting how they have applied things like bronze to ceremonial objects (or Aztecs used the wheels in toys) but not to more practical general use. Part of that...

There are a lot of generalizations being made here which could easily be disagreed with... but I digress. These things are only "disorders" in that they may cause problems for the people who live with/experience them as they try to fit into a society that does not think the way they do...

I think I read that my R1 haplogroup may have been linked to a kind found in the Yamnaya people of the steppes. As for what they looked like, I imagine not that different from others in the southwestern Russia region. I wonder if they had any link to the north Caucasus too. Some say the original...

Didn't the early proto Caucasian peoples come out of northeastern Africa, like Ethiopia and then Egypt, into the Middle East? I could see this being true. Interesting.

I feel like a lot of these movements are reactionary against the changing, globalization world, expansion of the EU, migration, and cultural tensions resulting from modernization. Also politicians taking advantage of sometimes not greatly educated populations. It's sad.

I read that French partially re-Latinized itself in the Middle Ages and Renaissance with more technical and scholarly terms borrowed straight from Latin. It's pretty easy to tell the difference between those and the inherited French words, which changed a lot more from Vulgar Latin. There are a...

The Bronze Age Collapse was very interesting, but there is still a lot of guesswork and we don't have definitive answers about these people or the Sea People and so on... If only they left better records.

Turkey strikes me as a diverse country with both European and Middle Eastern, as well as some Central Asian roots even. The crossroads between two parts of Eurasia. The west along the Aegean and Thrace/Istanbul seems fairly western, but the further you go east and interior, it gets more exotic...