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My new article for The Restorationist explains precisely what an Englishman is, and why the English are an ethnic group. https://restorationist.org.uk/what-is-an-englishman/

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Exclusive BAP interview for Patrons Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) joins me on JIVE TALK to discuss ancient history and how the heroic ideals of the past can shape our future. This is your chance to hear BAP’s unfiltered thoughts on the classical antiquity that inspires his philosophy, from the vitality of the Bronze Age to the inspiration of the Renaissance. We also talk about Plato and religion and in the second half we also discuss the misinterpretation in population geneticists of ancient cultures and elite dominance models of cultural replacement. Access via Patreon or Subscribestar

Seax scabbard detail from Vendel era Sweden.

This statue of Pelagius stands in Covadonga. Medieval sources call him a Goth but modern historians in Spain think maybe he was a native. Either way, by the 8th century the Goths were mostly of local ancestry so he would probably only be 1/4 Nordic if he was a Goth.

Man of the Khvalynsk Culture Khvalynsk were part of the Eneolithic Steppe horizon along with Sredny Stog and the Berezhnovka–Progress group. They are not an ancestor of Yamnaya or Corded Ware but more like an “Uncle” culture. They formed from an admixture of a steppe Eneolithic group that moved northward and admixed with local hunter gathers in the Volga region. Sredny Stog would be like a “brother culture” which came out of a similar population but instead of admixture with Volga hunter gathers they instead had admixed with Ukraine N populations. Source of reconstruction: https://sapiensbio.ru/rekonstrukczii/avtor-nechvaloda-a-i-graficheskaya-rekonstrukcziya-licza-po-cherepu-muzhchiny-hvalynskoj-kultury/

The WSH physical type looks much like Northern Europeans in terms of bone structure

Amber necklaces from the Corded Ware culture (Single Grave Culture), Denmark. Photo Credits to Roberto Fortuna and Kira Ursem, Nationalmuseet Denmark https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amber_necklaces,_Denmark._Neolithic_-_Bronze_Age.png#mw-jump-to-license

This helmet was a sacred object of the Woden cult https://youtu.be/HEYlbD9innc?feature=shared

A new paper on Goth and Suebians in Iberia. Suebian elites in Spain show almost entirely Northern European ancestry (92-95%). 14 Visigoth burial samples had greater than 80% Northwest European Ancestry (3 of which were full NW Euro). There were also 27 samples with mixed NW Euro and Iberian ancestry. Dates from 4-6th century. The Germanics did not leave a genetic legacy in Iberia though https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.23.614606v1

Watched the Basque folk tradition of the fox dance this morning and was also pelted with pig bladders. Video coming

New JIVE TALK is live with an expert Bronze Age sword smith providing insights into the forgotten world of weapons and war https://youtu.be/HoL7xO4j99c?feature=shared

Today I hiked on the trail of the Reconquista in Asturias down which the gallant Goth Pelagius chased the Muslims, beginning the reconquest of Spain! 🇪🇸

Black washing at the archaeological museum of Cantabria, Spain. The red lady exhibit doesn’t explain why a Sub Saharan African model is used to represent an 18k ybp Magdalenian woman. They mention DNA but not that she was already hugely diverged from Africans. Out of Africa migration currently dated to about 55,000 years before she was alive! She is closer in time and genetics to modern Europeans than to ancient or modern blacks.

Late Bronze Age Iberian stele with a spear head. Some may say the prominence of weapons in the archaeological record is misleading survivorship bias of artefacts and not representative of the culture in general. If a guy went to the trouble of carving an ak47 in stone I wouldn’t question his commitment

More scabbard designs from Nydam bog - see the horses and serpents are the main animals. 3rd/4th century

A Frankish warrior c. 6th century AD by Angus Mc Bride

A Germanic warrior c. 3rd century AD by Angus Mc Bride