Published: August 5, 2025
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My current understanding of the Corded Ware Migration: Red: Before 2900bc Orange: 2900-2700bc Green: 2700-2500bc Blue: After 2500bc

Image in tweet by Paxtysk

@VVeltkrieger Would red-orange be genetically 100% WSH? Would love to see one for Bell Beakers as well

@CisalpinePride Yeah pretty much

@VVeltkrieger I wonder what indo-European language would have been spoken in Estonia and Finland Maybe an intermediate of indo-iranic and Balto Slavic perhaps

@RJR_2003 More like a brother to Proto-Indo-Irano-Balto-Slavic

@VVeltkrieger Your maps look amazing! great job 👏! It would be fantastic to add in a comment a reference to the original source/s, to then more easily reuse the data/info

@MartinFS13 There are 100+ sources and i didnt note down most of them. I can provide the hundreds of maps used to georeference as source though. Reverse Image search works well on those

@VVeltkrieger So Battle Axe spreads from the Baltic? Very interesting This was initially how I presumed it spread across the Baltic sea, but then someone told me the earliest BA sites are in Southern Sweden The R-Z645 clades and relation to BSII make a lot more sense now

@Halva_Enjoyer Boat axe sites all start around 2650bc (middle neolithic B), the earliest in south sweden are Most probably single grave battle axes.

@VVeltkrieger @heidemann_padma Where is the green arrow going South west from Fatyanovo ?

@VVeltkrieger What stopped them at the Rhine?

@VVeltkrieger I love the small green/orange arrows next to the initial red ones. Basically, yes, it spreads out, but it also diffuses around previous population centres. With all the European forests back then, this is probably more impressive than moving for long distances along rivers.

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