John Koch on Bronze Age Europe as No Longer Mute

“‘At the present moment in intellectual history, the great question posed by genome-wide sequencing of aDNA is how to map languages onto populations and archaeological cultures for the period between the mass migrations from the steppe and the earliest attested Indo-European languages. Bronze Age Europe can no longer be treated as mute prehistory.‘” — John Koch

Source: Expanding Mental Models · (Decolonising Prehistory article)

Key scholarly voice corroborating FM’s thesis. “Bronze Age Europe can no longer be treated as mute prehistory” is a quotable authority-passage.

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