Ebook: The three waves of the Kurgan people into Old Europe, 4500-2500 B.C

Статья // Archives suisses d’anthropologie generale (Geneve). — 1979. — № 43 (2) — Pp. 113-137.The three waves discussed in the article were responsible for the Kurganization of Europe, a process enormously complex, including a hybridization of two cultural systems and of several physical types of people (the gracile Mediterranean and the more robust «Proto-Mediterranean» or «Cromagnon C»). The former cultural border lines disintegrated, the great Old European art and architectural traditions vanished or deteriorated; the religion and social structure changed. The horse, the wagon, the yoke, the dagger and spear, the patriarchy, and new gods and mythical images (typical of Indo-European mythologies) were introduced or imposed. Old Europe was transformed but not exterminated.