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Dec 6

[PART ONE] Caucasus Hunter-Gether / Iran Neolithic Farmer lineage: When, where and through what processes did its formation take place.

1/ In 1976, a local Soviet archaeologist carried out excavations in the Satsurblia cave (western Georgia), bringing to light various layers of human habitation, the oldest of which date back to the Upper Palaeolithic (27 kya). The cave was a seasonal camp for mobile groups of 👉

👉 hunter-gatherers, who hunted a wide range of game, showing a preference for the wild boar and red deer. The surveys continued recently, where a fragment of temporal bone of a man who lived in the cave between 13,132 and 13,380 BP was recovered (Late Upper Palaeolithic).

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Dec 3

1️⃣ The conclusions of a new archaeogenetic research confirm the theory of the descent of Proto-Indo-European speakers of an early form of the Greek language around 2250 BC (ΕΗ II / III). However, it is likely that their descent into the Helladic area took place a little earlier.

2️⃣ The earliest Helladic samples of steppe origin indicate this early descent (Theopetra - 2312 BC), in combination with the characteristics of the Proto-Greek language (centum). The Neolithic peoples are directly descended from the Yamnaya culture and passed into northern 👉

👉 Greece via the Balkan corridor. The Proto-Greek steppe origin differs from that of the Corded Ware Culture populations (3000-2300 BC) which were formed by the admixture of Yamnaya and Globular Amphora Culture populations and are widespread in central and western Europe.

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Nov 30

1/ In 1903, the Italian archaeologist Roberto Paribeni discovered inside an elite chamber tomb (Tomb 4) in the area of the royal Villa of Hagia Triada, Crete, one of the most important artifacts of Aegean art: the Hagia Triada sarcophagus. It is dated to around 1400 BC. #Minoans

2/ The sarcophagus was made of limestone and there are holes in its bottom. Its construction cannot be considered as something extraordinary and its shape is very irregular. However, its importance lies in the fact that it is decorated on all four sides 👉

👉 with abstract patterns and figures, while on its two long sides it contains a series of narrative scenes that present elements of Minoan funerary ritual. The buon frescoes were applied on a layer of lime plaster and were probably the work of two artists.

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Nov 27

1️⃣"Son of Laertes-what a fine, faithful wife you won! What good sense resided in your Penelope - how well Ikarios' daughter remembered you, Odysseus, the man she married! The fame of her great virtue will never die. The immortal gods will lift a song for all mankind, a glorious👉

👉song in praise of self-possessed Penelope. Not on this wise did the daughter of Tyndareus devise evil deeds and slay her wedded husband, and hateful shall the song regarding her be among men,and evil repute doth she bring upon all womankind, even upon her that doeth uprightly."

2️⃣With these verses, Homer essentially completes the epic poem of the Odyssey, that is, the return of Odysseus from Troy to his homeland of Ithaca. With this praise for his wife Penelope, who was the greatest motivation for his return to Ithaca and the preservation of his throne.

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Nov 25

1/ The Pelasgians constitute one of the greatest chimeras of the modern scientific community, as the ancient Greek sources referring to this mysterious people hover on the borders of myth and a faded historical memory, each time motivated by various motives.
#Pelasgians

2/ Thus the Pelasgians are presented as the most important of a series of Pre-Greek or non-Greek tribes who lived in the distant past or even at the time when the various ancient accounts about them were written. Most often Pelasgians are used to describe all of these tribes.

3/ They were, in simple words, a term with which the ancient Greeks tried to describe those populations that today we call the Pre-Greek substratum and elements of which were either Hellenized or reached the classical period as heterolingual (Lemnians, Eteocretans). 👉

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Nov 18

1️⃣ Linguistic and archaeogenetic studies have shown that the Mycenaeans were the oldest ancestors of modern Greeks. However, by reading the Mycenaean texts we discover impressive evidence regarding the continuity of Hellenism from the LBA to the present day.

2️⃣ The tablet MY V 659 was found in the palace of Mycenae and records either the distribution of beds or bedclothes (δέμνια) by the palace to mainly female persons (workers?), or for deliveries of bedclothes by female workers to the palace. The given names are recorded in pairs.

3️⃣ All the given names are Greek, however two of them are of exceptional interest, as they are particularly widespread in modern Greece: Alexandra (a-re-ka-sa-da-ra-ka) and Theodora (te-o-do-ra-qe). The given name Alexandra is a compound of the words aléxō (to repel) + the stem👉

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