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Where is the PIE Homeland?

Where is the PIE Homeland?

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Robert Lindsay
Nov 20, 2024
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Unpublished academic research.

Where is the PIE Homeland?

No abstract here.

Research into where the Indo-European homeland is. I’m not sure what this old paper concluded but to me, it’s only obvious that the homeland is in Anatolia with a secondary homeland in the Steppes in the Kurgan Culture area of Southern Russia.

This secondary homeland was the traditional homeland but recently the Anatolian hypothesis in my opinion has been proven. Of course there are still some conservatives who are hanging onto the old view. This always happens and it will never end, people being humans.

People simply don’t like to be proven wrong and even academics will go to their deathbeds fighting to uphold a deservedly dying paradigm. I get it. Science is supposed to be conservative but too many of us take this way too far.

Of course the ride or die with IE types are regressing to lamer and lamer hypotheses in the face of the outrageous new applecart-turning paradigm they so despise, but this is par for the …

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