What was pre-Indo-European culture like, and what were the most dramatic changes caused by the Indo-European migrations?

Th... that's really what got you about that post?

Well yeah. African societies weren't matriarchal but they did use crystals to levitate stones with their mind.

It was likely matrilineal and it was goddess centered though in all likelihood.

>"The exclusive use of the rock shelter for female and sub-adult burials points to a persistent division based on gender," wrote Marina Gallinaro, a researcher in African studies at Sapienza University of Rome, who was not involved in the study, in an email to LiveScience.

>One possibility is that during the earlier period, women had a more critical role in the society, and families may have even traced their descent through the female line. But once the Sahara began its inexorable expansion into the region about 5,000 years ago, the culture shifted and men's prominence may have risen as a result, Gallinaro wrote.

We also have roman records making fun of Saharans and Arabs later affronted by female autonomy and influence.

The Tuareg even today are matrifocal and matrillenial. Women can freely divorce, own everything except the camel and saddle and men are expelled back to their mother's camp. Their folkloric ancestor was a warrior queen.

Proofs?

>QUEENS
>not KWUEENZ
You had one job.

I got pics muhfugah

where is dancing considerd gay? you just have to know how to dance

i believe more and more that most of those we wuz kangs drawings and "facts" are made by whites just to mess with those brownies

if anything its a big percentage of them, which is fucking hilarious

some shitposter creates some random nignog fact and suddenly it appears all over black twitter/instagram/tumblr, must be gratifying

>2028537
Only hoteps believe them and black twitter makes fun of hoteps.

But also you don't need to troll. Hoteps make them themselves.

There were multiple different Pre indoeuropean cultures, which one are you asking about?

How did they manage to get BTFO so hard by Indo Europeans?

Horses too OP

Because the area that were immidiately effected by Indoeyropeans were under populated, more populated areas like Italy, Iberia, Sardinia and Crete resisted more

Pre Indo European settlements in my readings especially inland were densely populated with limited defensive structures or weapons. It doesn't take much other than holding hostage people of prestige and barking orders.

Pre indoeuropean doesn't mean much, Vinca? Cucuteni? Neolithic Britain?

Chariots and horses

Their settlements were designed with the houses connecting with one another in long rows that circled around the center of the community. Some settlements did have a central communal building that was designated as a sanctuary or shrine, but there is no indication yet whether or not a separate group or individual would have been supported by the community as a full-time priest or priestess. Almost every home was a self-supporting unit, much as if isolated in the middle of the woods, rather than part of a large settlement. Most homes had their own ceramic kilns, baking ovens, and work centers, indicating that almost all of the work that needed to be done to maintain human existence at the Neolithic standard of living could be done within each household in the community.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni-Trypillian_culture

Matrilineal =/= Matriarchal

They were like the Basques.

In other words, they're sub gypsy tier

Indo-Europeans expanded into Europe and Anatolia long before the invention of the chariot.

Horses, adult lactose tolerance, and probable warfare advantage.

>Indoeyropeans
I read that as hydroeuropeans. Dude, like, europeans coming out of the water and shit!

I'm drunk.

Well duh but women centered societies did exist and that is not an exaggeration

Pretty much the same as 21st. century culture.

>It was like Ancient Greece and Persia

Based Vargs.

I'm a little weary of the We Wuz Women Dominated culture bit that people keep memeing, but I have no alternative, really.

No one really knows what they were like, or if they had a related culture at all.

harrapan civilization seems pretty utopian.
little evidence of infighting between city states
religion was probably proto-jain
well-planned cities constructed on a grid system
sewage draining linked to every household
no special accomodations for ruling class apparent

Prior to the Vedic Era the way courtship was conducted was all the eligible bachelors in the community would show up to the wedding and the girl would choose the most desirable among them.
After the Aryan invasion, a strict racial hierarchy lead to the elimination of this tradition. Whereas in Europe, populations were separated via political boundaries, in India, populations mixed but the caste system was used to keep populations separated by race and ultimately occupation.
Funny thing is, the original method of courtship appears to have been quite common in all parts of the world, including ancient Scandanavia and continues in parts of Subsaharan Africa today. That may in fact be the common ancestral tradition of courtship of all humans since our earliest tribal days.

>adult lactose tolerance

this goes unsaid so often, but is actually extremely important.

How so?

because nutrition matters.

Being able to consume dairy past childhood is a massive advantage over someone who can't.

I thought Cucuteni was supposed to be a proto-Indo-European sort of culture.

>that "mehmet my son" comic represents the original method of courtship
What a world we live in.

Pre-IE "civilized" civilizations (civilizations which were organized in cities and states) usually followed some Mother deity fertility religion conveyed by priests who would dress as animals (Minoan, Indus Valley). The lesser civilized societies (Scandinavia, Western Europe) were organized in villages lead by Chieftains who probably believed in a mix of Mother deity religion combined with animism and ancestor worship.

The arrival of the Indo-Europeans brought increased organized polytheism and more realistic art combined with knowledge of metals and chariots to most parts of Eurasia.

There are some theories out there which propose that the Indo-Europeans brought along with them diseases and plagues which most of the Pre-IE population of Eurasia had no immunity to, thereby exterminating large numbers of indigenous inhabitants similarly to what happened after the arrival of Europeans to the New world. This not only weakened the indegenous population but also created space allowing the Indo-European population to colonize the "cleared" region.

news.appstate.edu/2014/01/22/collapse-of-indus-civilization/