Having a slave and having a meal were not that different in the maker's diet neolithicland.
The yamnaya stormed into Iberia and North India.
They killed off and ate all the indigenous males. They were yummie!
They kept the females that lived as slave concubines, but there was never a guarantee for these poor darlings that they would not eventually also be eaten as need arose.
Being a yamnaya slave concubine and ending up on the yamnaya menu were matters ultimately of degree.
Compared to being on the menu, slavery starts to look real real good!
Some later African tribes liked to tenderize their menu items alive.
That is a special subtle culinary genetic adaptation behavior among those few epicurean later African tribes. Western fiction even chronicles this oddity. See for example, Burroughs, The Leopard Men.
Given this, it hardly seems impossible that the Yamnaya, intelligent and discerning as they apparently were, according to Reich's account, caged and fattened their prey as well.
It may be useful to begin to think of this putative behavior as just possibly the font et origine of animal husbandry itself!
This post is dedicated to Nicholas Wade.
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