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[tied] Where did the Kurgan (Indo-European) people come from? (Eller, 2000).cybalist

 

 

 

 

" The question of where the Kurgans came from has a rote answer: the

Russian steppes. Gimbutas has brought great precision to questions of

the Kurgan homeland. She centers it in southwestern Russia where the

Don and Volga rivers approach one another most closely, extending

downward from there toward the northern shores of the Black Sea and

eastward toward Kazakhstan and the northern shores of the Caspian Sea.

Rhetorically speaking—part from the any archaeological data

confirming or disconfirming this theory—this is a terrific place to

locate the patriarchal homeland. What is requires is a territory big

enough to be home to a largish population of marauding warriors; a

place from which one can, without crossing enormous geographical

barriers (such as oceans) reach Europe and the Near East; a region

whose prehistory is neither noble nor well documented; and finally,

since no one wants to come from the place where patriarchy began, a

land this is sparsely populated today. On all counts, the Russian

steppes— " no man's land " —fit the profile (Eller 2000, p. 49).

 

" In short, the case for the spread of the Indo-European speakers from

the Russian steppes is merely suggestive—and the argument that this

spread occurred via military conquest is completely speculative—though

not entirely implausible (Eller 2000, p. 166). "

 

Eller, C. (2000). The myth of matriarchal prehistory: why an

invented past won't give women a future. Boston: Boston Press. ISBN

0-8070-6793-8

 

 

 

 

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