[SamiGirl]

I can’t access the article. It this about Thrace?

[dog breath]

Interesting, thanks for posting this.

[ConservativeMind]

Ping.

[maine-iac7]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01arch.html?_r=2

“was among the most sophisticated and technologically advanced places in the world” and was developing “many of the political, technological and ideological signs of civilization.”

And then they probably got a shiny new charismatic leader who promised a lot of hopey changey stuff

I wonder what archaeologists some thousands of years from now will wonder about us?

[Will88]

This is all impossible. That renowned historian Al Sharpton has said that all the Europeans’ ancestors were living in caves at the time of ancient Egypt.

[Unam Sanctam]

Hmmm. I wonder if they spoke an Indo-European language and were part of the spread of agriculture, which the article places at around 6,500 BC in Europe.

[El Sordo]

Ancient grooviness.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Truly fascinating.

[rabscuttle385]

Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.

Balkans ping.

[Free Vulcan]

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[Cronos]

interesting — i wonder if these were migrants from Sumeria or Hurrian type peoples

[truth_seeker]

Interesting. Article displays an obsession, with women’s role and status, reflecting such obsessions among contemporary “educators.”

My study over time, indicated Germanics and Celtics came to Central Europe, from the region in question.

Omission of same probably due to priority on women.