[jdfellow]

I'm somewhat bothered by the fact that the illustration is of "cavemen" and video of someone recreating paleolithic technologies.

The neolithic period was one of agriculture and early civilization. Stonehenge was built by neolithic peoples, and Egypt, Mesopotamia and China were embryonic civilizations in the neolithic era as well. Cavemen, these were not.

[benbreen]

I agree. Here's the actual study at Nature ("Cultural hitchhiking and competition between patrilineal kin groups explain the post-Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck "): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04375-6

Maybe the URL for this submission could be changed?

[ChuckMcM]

That video[1] is part of a series by this guy who is out recreating technology literally from dirt. If you're a prepper you want this guy on your team, you'll advance to the castle age way before anyone else does :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVV4xeWBIxE

[firmgently]

The Daily Express is quite a long way from being a serious newspaper. I don't know US papers but it's probably somewhere around what would happen if Fox News put out a print edition.

[posterboy]

The rest of the world though? Especially in contrast ...

[merdreubu]

Maydanets, 4000 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_cul...

Talianki, 4000 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni%E2%80%93Trypillia_cul...

[posterboy]

... The rest of the world though? Maybe not caves, but tents or whatever. All the stone-built, permanent settlements you can come up with still leave enough room. I think it might as well be that stark contrast leading to domination (pun intended) rather than war between those cities that's suspect.

I was wondering about Europe specifically, so thanks for the links.