The Yamna Discovery Through Destruction

“Knowing that I am a Buddhist and the significance of Yama to Buddhists perhaps explains why learning that the moniker given to the first people to speak an Indo-European — Yamna — immediately caught my attention. I remember the moment I read about the Yamna. I was in my apartment in central Dnipro.”

Source: Journeying · Decolonising Prehistory

The exact moment the word “Yamna” registered — in an apartment in Dnipro, connecting to Buddhism (Yama = Lord of Death). A specific memory that demonstrates how the author’s biography prepared him for this discovery.

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