Comments by "" (@SG-js2qn) on "Dan Davis History" channel.

  1. If I have it right, the name "George" means "farmer."
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  2. I noticed there were no ithyphallic figures in the oar rows. My quick and easy read of the ithyphallic figures is that they are representing lineages ... with the idea they are fathers of important families. The other men are not represented as important fathers of families, because they were not significant to society in that regard.
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  3. As an author, you night want to consider the possibility of this culture forming out of catastrophe. From what I've read, the flooding of the Black Sea occurred close to the "beginning" of this people. Most of the land that was suddenly covered by water was in the north, between Romania and Ukraine. It's easy to imagine a people living closer to the freshwater lake, when suddenly it began filling with salt water from the Mediterranean.
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  4. Kaleva (or Kalev, Kalevi) was the smith god of the Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Karelians. It's hammer time! 🔨
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  5. Lingams, not hats? Perhaps the lingam was brought to India along with Vedic language (or from India to Europe, if that's how you like to see it).
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  6. If they represent unopenable boxes, replicas of real life wooden ones, perhaps it's like a hope chest, or a child's treasure chest, where a child would accumulate things over their lifetime for their use as adults, and if the child died, they might bury this box with them. In the case of a few children of wealthy families, they made durable replicas of these boxes.
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  7. It's obvious what what we see with the male and female Gravettian populations is a division of food like that described in the rhyme "Jack Sprat." It goes, "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean, and so between the both, you see, they licked the platter clean." So the culture is eating predominantly animal flesh, and the meat is given to the men, which makes them tall and lean. The fat is given to the women, which makes them small and plump. This is probably the long-held ancestral pattern, as there are indicators favoring fat females, in that women are unusually plump for female apes, and there must be genetic reasons for it. Women also need high fat to keep their hormones balanced, and to prevent diabetes during pregnancy. Men, who have the more active role as hunters / trappers / protectors / builders / warriors, need the meat to attain greater stature and prowess. So the dimorphism between the sexes is not that unusual, but rather easily explained as being probably 100% normal for natural humans. Women were probably eating animal fat and cracking the bones for marrow.
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  8. IMO, plague is a better sign of trade than a cause for the rise and fall of civilizations in a per-urban era.
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  9. Do these precede or succeed the use of torcs and finger rings? If it precedes, perhaps this is the origin of a ring-giver.
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