Finding the Pre Proto Indo-European Gods

Before the Proto Indo-Europeans, the Early European Farmers (or Neolithic Farmers) were spread across Europe, and they had their own gods. How do we know who they were? Well here we do some analysis to uncover a number of them.

ERROR: I did say Mycenean instead of Minoan a few times, and I apologize. Unfortunately I can't correct this audio now it is published, but will correct the error the next time I make a video on the subject.

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References:
Marchi, N et al. 2022. The genomic origins of the world's first farmers. Cell.
Pettazzoni. 1967. "Introduction to the History of Greek Religion." In Essays on the History of Religions. S.l.: Brill
Robbins, Miriam. 1980. The Assimilation of Pre-Indo-European Goddesses into Indo-European Society, Volume 8, Journal of Indo-European Studies, pp.19-30
Nadel, Dani et al. 2012. New evidence for the processing of wild cereal grains at Ohalo II, a 23 000-year-old campsite on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. antiquity. 86. 990-1003

Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
2:40 Cultural Migration into Europe
4:30 25,000 Years Ago
5:38 15,000 Years Ago
6:53 The Younger Dryas Period
8:51 Farming Begins
11:16 Neolithic Migration
11:58 The Rise of the Proto Indo-Europeans
14:55 Finding the Old Gods
16:47 Looking at Greece
20:49 Mother Earth... and her many faces
26:05 Are these the old gods?
26:54 Half a Pantheon of Old Gods!