Bronze Age herders less mobile than thought

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During the Bronze Age (ca. 3900-1000 BCE), herders and their families moved across the slopes of the Caucasus and the steppes to the north, taking their sheep, goats and cattle with them. It is believed that the Indo-Germanic groups, who brought the Indo-European languages and technical innovations such as wagons, domestic horses and metal weapons to Europe, may have originated from this region.

Until now, experts assumed that this transfer of technology was based on the long-distance migrations and trade contacts of these mobile pastoral communities, and that this mobility connected the Middle East with Europe. An international research team, with the participation of the University of Basel, has now questioned whether these communities did actually travel over such long distances. They published their study in the journal Plos One.

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-bronze-age-herders-mobile-previously.html

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?

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That depends on the time frame in question, short hops over the great expanse of time, over time, it becomes one great leap from one corner of the world to the other. Or maybe the natives collapsed and died out and civilisation was reintroduced to the region. 

Or maybe, nothing that we presently know truly ever happened at all.... 

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