Will we ever know more about the societies and cultures of the Neolithic era or have archaeology and genetics reached their limit in this respect?
>>17986517Just recently, they discovered stone-age fortresses in Siberia, no?
>>17986524I'm thinking more in terms of day to day lived experience. Will we ever be privy to their conversations in some way or know what they sounded like?
>>17986517The kikes Lazaridis and Reich are stopping all further studies about Natufians so no.
>>17986517You may not like it but IE studies is a way to shed light on EEF culture.1. Figure out what is Indo-European2. What is not readily identifiable as Indo-European has a small chance of being EEF culture, but there are no guaranteesWhen it comes to linguistics, if you understand the Indo-European sound changes well enough, you might be able to identify substrate words which do not obey IE sound changes. Is it even possible to have confidence in substrate origins though? Maybe. Sometimes you might find words with a purely Mediterranean distribution.
>>17986524No
We will learn more. Newer climate models can help explain agricultural innovation.
>>17986517Reached their limit? We've barely started! We are still finding new sites like Göbekli Tepe that completely rewrite the timeline. We'll soon be modeling entire societal structures from isotopic data and ancient DNA. Genetic analysis is advancing at lightspeed, pulling entire population histories from a single tooth. The real limit is our own imagination and funding.
>>17986529The furthest linguistics will ever get is knowing how proto Indo European sounded
If we know what the Proto-Indo-European language sounded like, do we know about the language of the early farmers as well?
