The Twitter Manifesto — “Decolonising Prehistory”

“Decolonising Prehistory: Why Ukrainian Yamna and Not ‘Russian Yamna’ Created and Spread Indo-European culture from Ireland to India. Up until now the code for the Indo-European homeland was variously ‘South Russian Steppe,’ ‘Pontic Caspian Steppe’ or ‘Steppe Hypothesis.‘”

Source: Expanding Mental Models · (Tweet 8)

The most compressed statement of the decolonization argument. Directly names the three euphemisms that erase Ukraine from its own foundational role.

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