Tag: Europeans

This is The Netherlands. The weather is nothing short of excellent. Not too hot, not too cold, just perfect. I’m booked for three cities: Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Dronten. I’m engaged in a series of consultations related to migration and issues around it — my interest in people and...

The complications start in what’s called the “Kurgan hypothesis”, which postulates that the gigantic geographic spread of the Indo-European languages can all be traced back to a single origin point, where Proto-Indo-European was first spoken. This origin is identified in the archae...

The idea of the Indo-Europeans originated in linguistics, around the end of the 18th century, when the wide and undeniable links between Romance, Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Iranian, Sanskritic and several smaller language families were recognized. This led to the assertion that these languages must&r...

It should be common knowledge by now that human beings in their modern form, Homo sapiens, first evolved in Africa. Exactly when we emerged on the scene remains uncertain (recent fossil discoveries suggest it may have happened over 300,000 years ago, a hundred millennia earlier than we original...