The Volkisch and their thralls

Remember I was talking about how the Battle Axe culture was northern Corded Ware where they couldn't annex or remove the local farmers, fishers, and hunters...? Here's a study of the Bell Beaker culture, to Corded Ware's south up in Bavaria and Sudetenland.

I would like to credit Eurogenes. He'd dug up the raw data:

Genotype data from an upcoming Science paper titled Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe was uploaded recently to the Max Planck Society's Edmond database (see here). Among other things, the paper is going to focus on the genetic shifts in Germany's Lech Valley from the Late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age.

Unfortunately Davidski yanked that post. So my post here is having to credit Saraceni again. DOI is 10.1126/science.aax6219.

Those Lech rivermen were farmers south of Augsburg, 2700ish BC to the 1200s BC; solidly Bronze Age although they're claiming the earliest stage as "Neolithic" (I would read, Arsenochalcic). The earliest Lech male DNA is, I have to assume based on us Bell Beakers over in Britain, heavily R1b-L21. At least, amongst the aristocracy - more exactly, amongst the timocracy.

Lech's timocracy oversaw a Vaisya caste - Old Europe farmer. Perhaps these were the proletariat left over after the IndoEuropean elite knocked out the previous lords. The new lords, sharing little in common with their newly-acquired underlings, turned up their noses at them. For wives, they went instead to the Únětice culture in Sudetenland. Inevitably over centuries some of the lords and homegrown helots mixed it up, but the Lech ruling men remained Beaker by Y chromosome.

The territory is, I think, associated with the Volcae of antiquity; ancestors to the Celts and the Italians.

The social dynamics might even explain some difference between Celt-Italic and the German language-families: the former immediately reduced the old European farmers to serfdom, where the latter had to live next to the farmers and hunter-gatherers for millennia. Celt-Italic, as a result, has few loanwords and its grammar is classically Indo-European. The German languages - which come from Denmark - have a heavy non Indo European substrate; and it has (alongside the Church) given rise to an exotic "Standard Average European" clustered in Lotharingia.

UPDATE 10/12 - the Beaker Blogger is on the case. UPDATE 9 PM MST: Eurogenes repost.