The Search for the Proto-Indo-Europeans

The search for the Proto-Indo-European homeland and the identification of the Proto-Indo-European culture.

Credits:
Researcher/Writer - Aryus
Narrator - Richard Turner
Video Editor - Gautam Bhatti
Research Document:

Music:

Chapters:
00:00 Early Hypotheses
02:08 North European Hypothesis
06:50 Kurgan Hypothesis
09:36 Anatolian Hypothesis
11:15 Revised Steppe Hypothesis
23:18 South-of-Caucasus Hypothesis
32:31 North-of-Caucasus Hypothesis

[bombfog]

I greatly appreciate the effort you made to correct this video and then repost it rather than attacking me for pointing out the mistakes. This suggests that you are a stand-up guy.

[OghuricEnjoyer]

The Indo-Europeanization of Europe did not mean total destruction of the previous cul-
tural achievement, but consisted in an amalgamation (hybridization) of racial and cultural phenomena. Linguistically, the process may (and must) be regarded in a similar way: the Indo-Europeans imposed an idiom which itself then adopted certain elements from the autochthonous languages spoken previously. These non-Indo-European (pre-IE) elements are numerous in Greek, Latin, and arguably, Thracian.

[lyvras]

What an absolute treat of a video! There aren’t many historical influencers on YouTube who delve into different papers and works on their topic in such detail (or even at all) like you do in your videos. Absolutely outstanding!

[Laborejo]

This is excellent German pronunciation. It's not any actual current dialect but pronounced like a true linguist with a great eye for details :)

[akiyrjana]

Admirable scholarship in your video. Loans, influences and re-loans are a staple feature in languages, of course. At point 19:36 there are wagon words. In Finnish a wagon is "vaunu", and the Finnish word "ratas" is literally a wheel (a akin to "rota", something that rotates), but they propably are early germanic loans to northern balto-uralic. An interesting, maybe common word in early Uralic and Indo-European languages is "kesti", aka "a quest", which perhaps means the act of feeding and giving a resting place to someone not of one's own family group. Something neighbouring people would have occasionally done.

[Nomadd_swe]

The amount quality videos being output from this channel is maddening and love the narrator's pronunciation and overall tone.

Would also love a deep dive into the Scandinavian languages sometime in the future.

[frbeast]

Man your videos are very amazing and seriously top tier brother, hope you succeed and keep the style that you’re doing, much respect and hope you continue these videos cause they’re extremely binge worthy 😅

[gabrielmaximianobielkael]

The channel deserves millions of subscribers, really great

[harsh.w]

your videos are very high-effort and you're obviously passionate about this. Glad to see someone covering this side of history, linguistics, culture. I hope your channel balloons to millions of subscribers soon so people find out about shared ancestry.

[TërnocBesa]

Krenar aë mka fal Zoti Pellazgoilirë 👑🇦🇱🫡

[ArkhBaegor]

Outstanding series, I love how up to date it is! Shame these kinds of videos always bring out the crazies in the comment section but oh well, interaction is interaction I guess.

[lucasjames]

This channel deserves a million subscribers!! What an extraordinary style of presentation, smooth voice, amazing topic, etc.!
Much love!! ❤💙🤎🧡

[Shadowkainine]

Glad the video is back up! I love this series. Keep em coming!

[animeshkumar]

Excellent summary of top published research on this subject in the last 4 decades. AWESOME 👌

[michelecantelli]

But how can it be than that in Albania lake ohrid is found a older settlement than yamnaya migration ?

[SkyShroon]

The quality of this video is unmatched. This deserves way more views. Wish you luck mate!
Keep it up 👍

[thesandownclown]

In the short time it exists, this channel has already produced so much high value educational content. Bravo!

[KG-ekqs]

I'm not sure if you're interested if you're only focusing on indo european studies but I really recommend reading and maybe doing a video about the Yeniseians, it is fascinating the role they may have played in history, and from a scale of France to Chile... The potential of them being elite rulers in many different nomadic groups in history is super interesting and especially how many of loanwords they may have influenced. The Xiongnu, the Huns, the first humans to inhabit the Americas, i think it's fascinating that they're tied to all of them

[janetmontgomery-rj]

Very interesting and detailed. Really pulls you into history.. ... Thank you.

[sphenodon]

At this rate yall, the next episode is gonna be nearly an hour long. We can only hope that trend continues, excellent work