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Creators of "Old Europe"? | Vinča genetics, tech, culture, etc.

Timeless with Fred Snyder

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ARCHAEOLOGY FOR ALL: OVERVIEW OF PUBLIC
OUTREACH WITHIN THE “VINČA PROJECT”, SERBIA
https://www.academia.edu/40656435/Arc...

Paint It Black: The Rise of Metallurgy in the Balkans
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The genomic history of southeastern
Europe
https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...

Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local
origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia
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Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex
genetic history of early European farmers
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The end of the affair: formal
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20 Comments

@mirjanakremonic-lee3434 11 days ago

Thank you for bringing Vinca story to YouTube.

@Evolve.2 2 weeks ago

This is a subject I've literally never even heard of, so thanks for bringing it to my attention! I want to dive into more European Neolithic stuff now.

@nenadrajic9740 10 days ago

There's also Lepenski vir culture that predates Vinča by about 4000 years

@Дедина_Људина 6 days ago

If Vinca was in England or Germany, you would never stop hearing about it.

@kanojo1969 13 days ago

I often like to imagine a young neolithic human, having grown up out in the wilds with small group of families following the same herds, having seen a few dozen people at the same time at most. One day you get to go on the annual trip to 'town' to do some trading and replace worn-out tools or clothes, and maybe take in a ceremony or two. After weeks of walking you find yourself at gobekli tepe or one of the others. It would seem to you, like looking at the new york skyline looks to us. It would have been quite a sight for a young kid. Seeing hundreds of people all doing their own things, the ceremonies and religious displays... no different whatsoever from a young rural kid today going to the big city. We are still humans after all.

@Dosadniste2000 13 days ago

My respect to you, you went through effort to find pronunciation of so many foreign words perfectly,. Thank you

@mfyeju 2 weeks ago

I couldn't ask for a better topic at this length. You seriously have fans of your work. Amazing job

@MichaelCNelson6 13 days ago

Such a reasonable voice

@flyingfoamtv2169 2 weeks ago

Such an underrated culture.

@rumanol27 13 days ago

You should make a video on Dacia and Zalmoxianism, it would be interesting

@ExelaSuiram 8 days ago

The Vinča culture, also known as the Turdaș culture or Turdaș-Vinča, was a major Neolithic archaeological culture in Southeastern Europe that flourished from roughly 5400 to 4500 BCE.
Key FactsLocation: Centered in modern-day Serbia and Romania (especially Transylvania, near the Mureș River), stretching into Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
Discovery at Turdaș: In 1875, pioneering Transylvanian archaeologist Zsófia Torma discovered ancient pottery, inscribed symbols, and female figurines at the Turdaș site in Hunedoara County, Romania.
Discovery at Vinča: In 1908, Serbian archaeologist Miloje Vasić uncovered a massive, defining settlement at Vinča-Belo Brdo near Belgrade.Significance: The culture featured some of the largest prehistoric settlements in Europe, advanced copper-use tendencies, and the Vinča symbols—an early system of proto-writing

@sweetykitty4427 11 days ago

Im from Belgrade :) i love Vinča culture so much 💥💥💥💥

@michaelkrammer2417 11 days ago

I love the artwork of Vinça culture!!!

@thedimi4406 4 days ago

I was a one-time reporter when i was a kid, 10-11 years old, BBC and RTS did a story together on Vinča, amazing how you caught the exact essence of the story and the storyline. There are actually a few explanations for those masks, some are related to the nordic masks also... Amazing video and thanks for your effort, really made me feel satisfied

@FaustianSerb 2 weeks ago

Excellent pronunciation of serbian words and names! And great video as always, especially this one, appriciate it a lot.

@ErmisSouldatos 2 weeks ago

It's not just overuse of resources and direct conflict with Yamnaya, but also diseases. The Yamnaya had developed immunity to the diseases of domesticated animals, but most populations had not, so maybe the Vinca people got this disease from other farming groups to their east, who had gotten it from trade with the Yamnaya, and the effect of it was similar to when the Europeans reached the Americans and most of the population was wiped out through disease. That would also explain why they die out far earlier than the appearance of Yamnaya-descended groups in the region, since the trade networks would have transmitted the disease in advance of the actual Indo European migrations, and thus, despite the farmer populations already having been massively weakened by the disease wave, the Yamnaya would not have been able to capitalise on that untill many centuries later, since there was an upper limit on how fast a population could migrate, and it was significantly slower than how quickly trade could be conducted

@jamesmckenzie4572 11 days ago

I enjoyed hearing the related timelines you brought up often. It's nice to know how these groups fit into the larger historical picture. Thanks, subscribed.

@yugodream380 10 days ago

Great video! Keep on bringing Vinca and starcevo to light.

@denisevincent4050 8 days ago

Wow, I also pictured my mother's ancestors walking up the Danube, mostly thanks to that one paper about the exchange of brides during the Neolithic between people in the Lech River Valley (where my mother was born in 1926) which is a tributary of the Danube. Digging into the paper's data, I found the U5 mtDNA that I inherited from mom. The people with whom the brides were exchanged were in what's now the Czech Republic, which is now the modern center for my mtDNA. I suspect this means that I'll be subscribing to yet another distant cousin's Vlog. ;)

@roguecow9632 7 days ago

My favorite thing about Catal Huyuk was the fact it Didn't have palaces and rich vs poor neighborhoods but everyone lived fairly equally by all appearances--that's actually a good thing, imo.