{"id":42903,"date":"2020-06-19T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42903"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:35:05","slug":"qotd-we-call-it-the-corded-ware-culture-not-the-battle-axe-culture-to-make-it-less-interesting-to-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/06\/19\/qotd-we-call-it-the-corded-ware-culture-not-the-battle-axe-culture-to-make-it-less-interesting-to-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: We call it the Corded Ware culture, not the Battle Axe culture to make it less interesting to boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>India played a large role in the development of European conceptions of race. In 1786 British judge <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Jones_(philologist)\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">William Jones<\/a> delivered a lecture in Calcutta suggesting that Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin were all descended from the same lost language, a ghost tongue now called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proto-Indo-European_language\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Proto-Indo-European<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones went on to hypothesize that an ancient invasion of Dravidian-speaking India by Proto-Indo-European-speaking Aryans from Iran could help explain the curious distribution of language, skin color, and caste within the Hindu world today.<\/p>\n<p>Jones&#8217; ideas had unfortunate influence. Reich writes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>To the Nazis and others, the distribution of the Indo-European language family, linking Europe to India &#8230; spoke of an ancient conquest moving out of an ancestral homeland, displacing and subjugating the peoples of the conquered territories, an event they wished to emulate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hitler thus culturally appropriated the Hindu swastika.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1945, the notion of Aryan invaders has been unsurprisingly unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, anthropologists have promoted the &#8220;pots not people&#8221; theory to argue that trade and changes in fashion must explain why Corded Ware pots suddenly showed up all over Europe about 4,900 years ago. (So did battle axes; indeed, early scientists called this the Battle Axe Culture. But that sounded too awesome. Hence, more recent academics renamed it after its pottery style to make these brutal barbarians sound dweebier and thus less interesting to boys.)<\/p>\n<p>In India, the notion of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rigveda\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hindu culture<\/a> as a giant conspiracy by Aryan invaders to enshrine their descendants at the top of the social order for the rest of eternity perhaps struck a little too close to home.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Sailer, <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/reichs_laboratory_steve_sailer\/print#ixzz5BSUoAKGe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Reich&#8217;s Laboratory&#8221;, <em>Taki&#8217;s Magazine<\/em><\/a>, 2018-03-28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India played a large role in the development of European conceptions of race. In 1786 British judge William Jones delivered a lecture in Calcutta suggesting that Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin were all descended from the same lost language, a ghost tongue now called Proto-Indo-European. Jones went on to hypothesize that an ancient invasion of Dravidian-speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,41,16],"tags":[288,1126,457,838,400],"class_list":["post-42903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-india","category-quotations","category-science","tag-archaeology","tag-culturalappropriation","tag-fascism","tag-hinduism","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-b9Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57954,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42903\/revisions\/57954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}