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03 Jul 2025 16:40

Did you know Vikings in Scandinavia did this? 👀

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03 Jul 2025 10:14

Seax scabbard detail from Vendel era Sweden.

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02 Jul 2025 21:31

Man of the Khvalynsk Culture

Khvalynsk were part of the Eneolithic Steppe horizon along with Sredny Stog and the Berezhnovka–Progress group. They are not an ancestor of Yamnaya or Corded Ware but more like an “Uncle” culture. They formed from an admixture of a steppe Eneolithic group that moved northward and admixed with local hunter gathers in the Volga region. Sredny Stog would be like a “brother culture” which came out of a similar population but instead of admixture with Volga hunter gathers they instead had admixed with Ukraine N populations.

Source of reconstruction: https://sapiensbio.ru/rekonstrukczii/avtor-nechvaloda-a-i-graficheskaya-rekonstrukcziya-licza-po-cherepu-muzhchiny-hvalynskoj-kultury/

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02 Jul 2025 18:48

Amber necklaces from the Corded Ware culture (Single Grave Culture), Denmark.

Photo Credits to Roberto Fortuna and Kira Ursem, Nationalmuseet Denmark

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amber_necklaces,_Denmark._Neolithic_-_Bronze_Age.png#mw-jump-to-license

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28 Jun 2025 10:03

A new paper on Goth and Suebians in Iberia. Suebian elites in Spain show almost entirely Northern European ancestry (92-95%). 14 Visigoth burial samples had greater than 80% Northwest European Ancestry (3 of which were full NW Euro). There were also 27 samples with mixed NW Euro and Iberian ancestry. Dates from 4-6th century.

The Germanics did not leave a genetic legacy in Iberia though

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614606v1

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24 Jun 2025 22:23

New JIVE TALK is live with an expert Bronze Age sword smith providing insights into the forgotten world of weapons and war

https://youtu.be/HoL7xO4j99c?feature=shared

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21 Jun 2025 22:35

Black washing at the archaeological museum of Cantabria, Spain.

The red lady exhibit doesn’t explain why a Sub Saharan African model is used to represent an 18k ybp Magdalenian woman. They mention DNA but not that she was already hugely diverged from Africans.

Out of Africa migration currently dated to about 55,000 years before she was alive!

She is closer in time and genetics to modern Europeans than to ancient or modern blacks.

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17 Jun 2025 17:56

More scabbard designs from Nydam bog - see the horses and serpents are the main animals. 3rd/4th century

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17 Jun 2025 11:19

A Germanic warrior c. 3rd century AD by Angus Mc Bride

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16 Jun 2025 21:28

New Dutch reconstruction of a WHG woman from Wallonia. I hate it but it’s better than the Cheddar man one

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14 Jun 2025 19:11

An interview with the most experienced Bronze Age sword smith alive - Neil Burridge. Early access for patrons

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13 Jun 2025 12:57

Genos Historia has shown that there were genes present in WHG that likely made them lighter skinned than previously thought

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12 Jun 2025 15:02

Ancient foid pump iron in bikini, meanwhile you go to PLANET FITNESS wearing GYM SHARK leggings…YOU ARE GAY!

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12 Jun 2025 09:32

Focusing on the jivetalk?feature=shared">second channel more recently. Having just interviewed Aki Cederberg and Aarvoll, next up there’s an interview with Bronze age sword smith Neil Burridge and a history talk with Bronze age Pervert. Make sure you are subscribed so you don’t miss them

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11 Jun 2025 16:28

Gera ok Freka seðr gunntamiðr hróðigr Herjafǫðr; en við vín eitt vápngǫfugr Óðinn æ lifir.

"Battle-trained, glorious Herjafǫðr feeds Geri and Freki; but on wine alone weapon-noble Óðinn always lives."

Grímnismál 19
Codex Regius
MS No. 2365 4to

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03 Jul 2025 16:14

Exclusive BAP interview for Patrons


Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) joins me on JIVE TALK to discuss ancient history and how the heroic ideals of the past can shape our future. This is your chance to hear BAP’s unfiltered thoughts on the classical antiquity that inspires his philosophy, from the vitality of the Bronze Age to the inspiration of the Renaissance. We also talk about Plato and religion and in the second half we also discuss the misinterpretation in population geneticists of ancient cultures and elite dominance models of cultural replacement.

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02 Jul 2025 21:42

This statue of Pelagius stands in Covadonga. Medieval sources call him a Goth but modern historians in Spain think maybe he was a native.

Either way, by the 8th century the Goths were mostly of local ancestry so he would probably only be 1/4 Nordic if he was a Goth.

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02 Jul 2025 21:31

The WSH physical type looks much like Northern Europeans in terms of bone structure

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28 Jun 2025 10:04

This helmet was a sacred object of the Woden cult

https://youtu.be/HEYlbD9innc?feature=shared

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26 Jun 2025 23:48

Watched the Basque folk tradition of the fox dance this morning and was also pelted with pig bladders. Video coming

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23 Jun 2025 17:38

Today I hiked on the trail of the Reconquista in Asturias down which the gallant Goth Pelagius chased the Muslims, beginning the reconquest of Spain! 🇪🇸

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21 Jun 2025 22:33

Late Bronze Age Iberian stele with a spear head.

Some may say the prominence of weapons in the archaeological record is misleading survivorship bias of artefacts and not representative of the culture in general.

If a guy went to the trouble of carving an ak47 in stone I wouldn’t question his commitment

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17 Jun 2025 11:19

A Frankish warrior c. 6th century AD by Angus Mc Bride

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17 Jun 2025 11:08

This is what late Roman soldiers in Britain looked like - trousers and tunics from barbarian influence on the late Romans. The crested helmet famous for Vendel era Swedish and early Anglo-Saxon examples is based on Late Roman ridge helmets - the only real difference being that the Germanic people added their zoomorphic knotwork designs to the mix. What is surprising is how similar this soldier looks to the Anglo-Saxon invaders who were yet to arrive. Their arrival was perhaps not as much of a culture shock as people sometimes make out...

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16 Jun 2025 10:30

La Tene era Celtic princess from the 5th century BC burial on the banks of the Moselle, in Luxembourg, between Schengen and Remerschen

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13 Jun 2025 16:52

Details of the bird’s head sword scabbard found in Nydam bog, Denmark. Dating to the 4th century.

The ancestors of the English were in this region at the time. This is before detailed zoomorphic interlace took off

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12 Jun 2025 15:04

Barrows weren't always simple mounds of earth. Various cultures, including Scythians and Bronze Age Britons, covered the mounds with a layer of clay, which in some cases could have been shining white.

One can then imagine the monuments were far more impressive and conspicuous than they now appear.

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12 Jun 2025 10:24

Pictish Bronze beast, possibly a bull, c. 100 BC. It was probably mounted on a bucket or ritual bowl. Discovered in 2023.

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11 Jun 2025 19:57

This app has been compromised for some time now

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11 Jun 2025 16:24

A European origin for the PIE language was first suggested by Heinrich Schulz in 1826. Most people still thought it was in Asia because Sanskrit is so archaic. In 1851 Robert Gordon Latham, in a prologue for Germania by Tacitus, argues again for a European urheimat on the basis that most linguistic diversity of IE languages is inside Europe.

Latham suggested Lithuania as a possible origin, but significantly, he also identified the Pontic-Caspian steppe as of likely significance to the PIE speakers, mentioning the Volga and the Dnieper.

The South-Russian/Ukrainian homeland was properly considered by Otto Schrader in 1890, who cites a paper from 1875 by Theodor Benfey. It is to these men that a great deal of credit is therefore due. However Latham did some of the groundwork