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Saturday, July 27, 2019

DAVID REICH SEES BELL BEAKER CULTURE AND DNA THROUGH WHIG ROSE COLORED GLASSES

Ch 5. He paints Bell Beakers as inclusive and multicultural, spreading ideas across diverse DNA populations.

By analogy: One wonders what the archaeology and DNA of ancient Sparta would disclose about Sparta and its helots. 

Certainly Spartan ideas were those which Helots were forced to share, but it's hard to call it multiculturalism or inclusivity.

Certainly their relations were not as cordial as the picture Reich paints of relations between Bell Beakers and distinct DNA groups which archaeology demonstrates they influenced.

The Whig Interpretation of History extends back to pre history, aroung 5,000 years ago, now.

The Pax Mongolica is another locus classicus of Whig ancient history exegesis, by economists rather than geneticists.

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