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So many styles... Which is your favourite? I'm personally divided betreen Romanesque, Ottonian and Gothic.

Recently I have been thinking about the Beaker-IE problem, and it seems to me that it was in its origins non-IE, due to its origin in Iberia (see map) and its continuation of megalithism in western Europe. However, I have also come to acknowledge that in central Europe, the Bronze Age (Unetice...

Pytheas was a 4th century BC explorer who visited places such as Britain, and a mysterious Thule (which he calls the northernmost of the Prettanic (British) isles), which has been interpreted as the Shetland Islands, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway and even Greenland (I am inclined towards...

Recently, I was observing the R1a patterns in Western Europe and something struck me: the R1a frequencies don't always correlate with the Germanic migrations historically attested, nor with the other haplogroups assumed to be Germanic (namely I1 and R1b-U106). A prime example is Cantabria, in...

The other day, the fact that there was an unusual lexical conservativism (that is, the fact that the original words have been preserved) in the numerals of Indo-European languages came to the discussion, and I began to think why that was. I came to the conclusion that the most probable reason...

Who doesn't love a mass, a plainchant or a hymn; a rondeau or a cantiga? I'll be posting some Medieval music for all Eupedians; If anyone wants to join in, all the merrier.

This thread is dedicated to jazz in Europe. Feel free to comment and add bands or artists you know, as I know much less about this than I would like. First off, there is gypsy French guitarist Django Reinhardt, possibly the most famous European jazz musician. He started the musical current known...

Was R1b-U106 in Scandinavia&Frisia caused by Tumulus Culture proto-Celtic migrations? It has been proposed that R1b-U106 was diffused during the Iron Age Hallstatt Culture. I think it may have been earlier, in the Bronze Age, more specifically with the expansion of the Tumulus Culture. Here's...

I was looking around the subclades of R1b, and I was intrigued by haplogroup R1b1a2a1a1b2b (L176.2) and its 2 subclades, R1b1a2a1a1b2b1 (SRY2627) and R1b1a2a1a1b2b2 (L165). SRY2627 is found primarily in the eastern and central Pyrenees, and in lower frequencies in Iberia in general (see map)...

It was originally thought that this gene is from the palaeolithic Cro-Magnons, but since this has been mostly discredited in the last few years, I thought it would be good to start a debate about from where the R1b folk reached western Europe (including Iberia). We know R1b had its origins...