>As few as 700 Beaker men displaced nearly all previous Iberian Ydna lineages with no signs of violence.>Women unironically just flocked to the better men leaving matriarchal EEF simps to rot.
>>18701298It is more probable that the population was already decimated by the plague of herders that desolated Chalcolithic Europe. Also, when the nomads arrived, they shurely exchanged goods with locals to obtain women (just as Spanish conquistadors did when they arrived America, exchaging their own exotic goods with local tribes or making alliances with chiefs, for women); their offspring then gradually replaced the farmer societies by warfare or just demographic superiority. We have reasons to think this:>exogamy is very common among primitive cultures in order to avoid endogamy>most of Spain still spoke pre-indoeuropean languages and worshipped teluric agrarian deities by the time Celts arrived during Iron Age>the Castilian plains were sparsely popuated by that time IE nomads arrived, so they had plenty fields to grow out of control, as Huns in Hungary millennia later
>>18701298>the Castilian plains were sparsely popuated by that time IE nomads arrived, so they had plenty fields to grow out of control, as Huns in Hungary millennia laterI want to emphasize this. Most of EEF communities in Spain were located in the coast connected with other Beaker and Neolithic cultures in Italy, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Britain, France, etc. That is why most of the megalithic sites in Iberia are located in Galicia, Portugal, Basque Country, Andalucia, Valencia, Cataluña, etc., next to the shores of the sea.The Castilian plains, the so called empty Spain, which cover the majority of Spain, were generally very sparsely populated, according to the archaeological record. And it is on those plains that the steppe peoples primarily settled (the so-called Motillas Culture, etc.).The two to four centuries of a gap between the arrival of the Indo-Europeans in Spain and the prevalence of steppe genes represent sufficient time for pastoralist communities, having secured local women as partners (whether through marriage alliances, conquest, or purchase with local tribes as slaves), to expand demographically unchecked across a vast plain of 400,000 square kilometers, an area the size of Norway; and even to conquer the coastal communities in expeditions of looting and pillaging like those of the Muslims, Huns and Vikings in medieval times..
