The Acorn/Seed Metaphor

I want us to privilege ancient Ukraine in the way that today perhaps we privilege ancient Rome or ancient Greece. Everything in ancient Rome and ancient Greece and in current India… like an acorn growing out of a seed, that seed is in the Yamna community in Ukraine.

Source: Expanding Mental Models · FM Draft (podcast transcript)

The acorn/seed metaphor for Ukraine-as-source. Accessible and memorable — the entire IE civilisational tree grows from a single Ukrainian seed.

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