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DNA data reveals large scale population replacement, challenging the view that cultural change was mostly peaceful or gradual.
DNA evidence shattered old archaeology myths about peaceful prehistory and shows dramatic, rapid population shifts across Europe.
Summary
Asmongold TV dives into how ancient DNA overturned long-standing archaeology narratives about peaceful cultural exchanges in the past. The speaker outlines how early 20th‑century ideas framed population shifts as gradual cultural diffusion, a view later popularized (and sometimes weaponized) by political agendas. He highlights a paradox: artifacts like pots and tools can spread through culture, yet genetic data reveal massive demographic disruptions—often 50%, 70%, or even 90% population replacement in certain regions. The dialogue then shifts to concrete case studies, from Britain’s Beaker phenomenon to Iberia’s 40/60 foreign-to-local arrival, showing that changes can be both rapid and geographically uneven. According to the host, this hard data forces historians to revise cherished narratives and confront uncomfortable truths about conquest and violence in the past. He stresses that these revelations challenge a universal “peaceful ancient world” trope, arguing that violent expansion was more common than many are comfortable admitting. The conversation also critiques the modern academy’s response to these findings, accusing some scholars of clinging to ideological screens rather than adjusting theories to fit DNA evidence. Throughout, the creator contends that recognizing the past’s brutality is essential to understanding present debates about identity, guilt, and national narratives.
Key Takeaways
- Ancient DNA data show dramatic population disruption in Europe, not just cultural change, with some cases indicating 50–90% replacement.
- The Beaker migration example illustrates rapid, localized disruption, contradicting the idea of slow, peaceful cultural adoption.
- UK, Iberia, and Netherlands data reveal variability in how populations changed, from fast turnovers to slower, multi-century transitions.
- Beaker and Corded Ware interactions likely involved real demographic waves rather than purely cultural diffusion, challenging peaceful-assimilation myths.
- Archaeology’s narrative has been influenced by political and ideological biases, and DNA evidence calls for re-evaluating long-standing theories about prehistory.
- The discussion links past violence to present debates on Western guilt and “original sin,” arguing for a more nuanced, data-driven understanding of history.
- There is a call for radical solutions to systemic problems in how research is funded and taught when data contradict established narratives.
Who Is This For?
Essential viewing for archaeology enthusiasts, historians, and anyone curious about how ancient DNA reshapes our understanding of prehistory and the violent realities behind population changes.
Notable Quotes
"The DNA results was extremely disruptive to people in archaeology who had made these arguments that change wasn't possible in this very... large scale migration, large scale disruption probably didn't occur in the past. It did."
—Shows how DNA data challenged the idea that large migrations were impossible or rare.
"This is the reason why you don't get more research on things like IQ in the different countries in the world. This is the reason why you don't get more research about these other topics that are politically incorrect."
—Links contemporary political correctness debates to how research agendas are shaped.
"The peaceful savage has always been an obvious lie. The grant system has destroyed research."
—Two bold claims tying popular myths to funding and ideological pressures in archaeology.
Questions This Video Answers
- How does ancient DNA change our view of European prehistory compared to artifact-based archaeology?
- What happened during the Beaker period in Britain and Iberia, and what does DNA say about it?
- Why do some historians resist DNA-based reconstructions of the past?
- What are the Beaker and Corded Ware cultures, and why are they important to migration studies?
- How do you interpret rapid demographic shifts in the archaeological record without assuming violence?
Ancient DNABeaker cultureCorded WareYamna (Yamnaya)European prehistoryPopulation geneticsArchaeology and ideologyHistoriographyMigration and conquest
Full Transcript
Ancient DNA has been very disruptive to conventional understanding of the past because after the second world war there had been a reaction where people said this initial idea that people had in the beginning of the 20th century when people would see new types of pots this is the arrival of a new people uh coming through invasion or sorry about this like I I have a big volume problem I apologize been a reaction where people said this initial idea that people had in the beginning of the 20th century when people would see new types of pots.
this is the arrival of a new people uh coming through invasion or through movement and that was used by for example the Nazis to argue that these were spreads of aryans moving across the landscape and the reaction after the second world war was to say we don't know this and in fact when you see the arrival of new types of uh material culture pots for example or tools or ways of organizing life you might be seeing is more the spread of culture you might be seeing for example something like people copying use of a cell phone or something like this.
How could there be a big movement of people? You're looking at densely settled Europe with well-developed agriculture. How could it be that new people coming in from outside will unseat these people, disrupt these people? But then you look at the genetic data and there's a 50% 70% 90% population disruption. what happened when man he's saying that mass migration is causing a lot of these problems like historically we had these findings was some of our archaeologist co-authors really just were very distressed by the implication why you're you're really surprised that like what did you think happened isn't Oh my god, it's an inconvenient dude.
This is so sad. One way or the other, you have some kind of people who expand demographically and displace people somehow rapidly displace people over a period of well less than a century. How do you think that large groups of people are displaced over such a short period of time? Well, I wonder magic. Yeah, it's uh magic. Exactly. Today in Colombia, 95% of the Y chromosomes are European. 95% of the mitochondrial DNA are Native American. We know what happened there. It wasn't friendly. It wasn't peaceful. It wasn't nice. We really don't know what the past was like until we actually look at it and have hard data telling us.
I'll give you a little bit of a of a of a surprise. The past is exactly like that. Every single instance where one culture was interacting with another one and there was a massive power disparity, the other culture probably doesn't exist anymore. That because they killed them. That's what happened. That's what it's like. our guesses, our models are are including many of mine are likely to be wrong because we can see that because when we have hard data, we're surprised. History constantly repeats itself. Yeah, it's insane for me to see this. It wasn't peaceful. It wasn't friendly.
It wasn't nice. Yeah, 11 million people have uh have been talking about this, right? And uh full episode, the consensus was thinking completely artificial from the start. Ancient sources made it very clear what happened, but modern historians didn't like it because it didn't fit with their worldview. So, they made up elaborate theories of peaceful assimilation. DNA proved them to be liars. So, and and by the way, this is the reason why you don't get more research on things like IQ in the different countries in the world. This is the reason why you don't get more research about these other topics that are politically incorrect.
It's not because people don't want to know the answer. It's because they already know the answer. That's the real reason so much of the intellectual and they don't want they don't want anybody else to find out about it. And uh it doesn't follow the narrative. Yes, exactly. Even the Old Testament tells about this. Yeah. Why does everyone want to conquer? Because it it's fun, I guess. Like I don't know. Like I mean, [ __ ] So much of the intellectual energy in Europe and US was wasted by advancing comfortable lies rather than facing hard truths. Knowledge and understanding have been set back at least hundred years because of progressives taking over the academy and we aren't free yet.
That's true. Absolutely. Lawrence Keely exposed what archa what liars archaeologists are decades ago. These pieces of crap are more insisted in their agendas than they are the truth. The peaceful savage has always been an obvious lie. The grant system has destroyed research. Absolutely. And uh oh my god. The archaeology community actually think that early humans were peacenicks. It's really sad. Americans did this more humanely than one native tribe conquered another. What is this? Jesus. Holy. That's pretty fast. And that was over like what a hundred years. Wow. You're right for the wrong reason. Not born stupid.
It's lack of education and our culture. Well, I think that I I don't think this has anything to do with like being stupid or not. This is this is a uh it's an ideology, right? And so basically what they do, so this is the reasoning and this is what people like this do. They create these false conclusions from data and then they use the false conclusions as a reference point that they can use to push a narrative that what you're doing is not historically supported and this isn't what happened. So basically what they let me think of a better way to say that cuz that that wasn't a very good way of explaining it.
Um, so there has been an ongoing and a very common push to try to create a unique a unique evil that is being ascribed to Europeans and Americans and you know basically just white people, anybody in Western culture that we have a uniquely bloody history and the way that we approach things is problematic by default because we are these conquerors. we've killed bunches of groups of people and you know like we're this evil group of people. But what happens is that whenever you look at the archaeology you'll see that actually everybody did this. This was very common because this is how people are.
It's not like white people don't have a monopoly over this. Everybody did this. So whenever you have the ge uh the geology I guess not ge the archaeology that's unveiled and people see this to be true then you realize that the white guilt original sin from colonialism or from some other form of uh control is actually just the same thing that everybody else did but we're the only ones that are living in a culture that has to constantly apologize for it. And that's really what I think this is showing. And and and that's the reason why they find it unsettling.
It's because it completely destroys the original sin narrative that they've tried to give every single person inside of uh of Western culture. Hopefully that is Is that a better way for me to explain it? I I think that's maybe a little bit better. And uh you know what the Korean slave trade? Well, I don't know about that. I mean I mean of course Koreans probably had slaves. I mean no doubt every race has done awful atrocities. Exactly. And so that's that's the reason why you see so much of this happening. Now you know what current Germans feel like.
The guilt thing. Well, yeah, of course, right? But I mean, like, what are you going to do about it? Like the the problem is that and and this is the issue is that it's not enough. A lot of people like me are extremely good at identifying problems. But the issue is that whenever people like me want to solve these problems, these solutions are seen as unacceptable. That's the main issue. You have to accept radical solutions if you want to solve radical problems. This is a radical problem. This is a systematic radical problem that's been going on for 50 years.
And again, Elon talked about this too. Ancient cultures were extremely violent. Not the peaceloving ecologists at all. Duh. Of course. And for decades, prehistorical evidence was forced through a left-wing theory filter. Exactly. People like this. People like this, what they do is they control data and then they use data as a reference point to justify things. Let's say unethical, not unacceptable. Well, I don't even think what I what I advocate for is unethical. I think it's extremely ethical, but uh it's specifically used against white people because they're uh because they're succeeding at the moment. Well, I think that it's stopping.
I I I do think that like because what's happened is that you've reached kind of like an inflection point with how much like DEI diversity inclusion stuff has effectively disenfranchised a lot of people, right? And it's also, by the way, it's not just it's not just white men, it's men of other races as well. Like Asian men are the uh the victims of this. I also even think black men in some cases are the victims of this. I think it's basically a system that's designed effectively to, you know, basically put men last and women first and that's it.
Or somebody who has some other sort of, you know, invented gender identity, right? And uh that's really what's happened more than anything. And it's happening to everybody. He goes on further from here. Well, let me look at Oh, there's more of it. Okay, let me see what that is. Are you cleaning right now? Yes, I am. I I I am I don't know how you noticed that, but I So, basically, I accidentally spit something out a little bit and it was on my table and it was gross and I was like, I don't want to I don't want to look at that.
And so, I I I ended up cleaning my desk right there. You actually caught me. I figured just showing this might be might make people think something else. So, I I got the Windex, too. But yeah, that that's what it was. So I I made sure my desk was clean. That That's what it was. Yes. Exactly. And uh unfollowed. Well, I I had to, right? I mean, like it was gross. Yeah. It's disgusting. I I I don't want to have that. Okay, let me see this. So the DNA results was extremely disruptive to people in archaeology who had made these arguments that change wasn't possible in this very that large scale migration, large scale disruption probably didn't occur in the past.
It did. It did. And what happened as a result from it? That's right. I love this. So it was a real challenge. It was a real challenge to our understanding of prehistory. It was sort of a case example. How could it be? Why is it a challenge? It's only a challenge because you don't like the conclusion. It's not a ch like any reasonable person could have come to this conclusion already. Prime example that's been important for me in showing that we really don't know what the past was like until we actually look at it and have hard data.
Yeah, you do. Anybody could have told you this. Telling us what it's like. Our guesses, our models are are including many of mine are likely to be wrong because we can see that because when we have hard data, we're surprised. I'm sorry for that long preamble. So when when what's happened in the last few years is there's been something of a reconciliation after the book uh archaeology is trying to reconcile itself with the DNA data and it's arguing about the subtlety of these interaction events. So people talk about what's happened in Britain for example. Well maybe the arrival of the beaker phenomenon which happens about 4,500 years ago.
Maybe it's not the invasion. Maybe it's a kind of peaceful event. Maybe the previous people uh the reason we're seeing such a disruption is the previous people we know they cremated their dead and the beaker people buried their dead. Ah so it looks like a much more abrupt change than it did. Maybe what you happens in Iberia when there's a 40% arrival of these foreigners from the east and 60% local people but the Y chromosomes are completely replaced so the local men don't sort of contribute their DNA to local later populations. So, a bunch of people from another foreign place came there and raped all the women and then took over, right?
That's basically what you're saying. It looks to you, it looks somehow like that must be extremely disruptive to the local male population, but people are saying, "Well, maybe this is female mate choice. Maybe this is it's female mate choice. Wait a minute. You think that female mate choice existed 4,500 years ago?" Female mate choice barely listed barely existed 500 years ago. Uh, are you [ __ ] [ __ ] This is so pathetic. How can you possibly say this? Somehow kind of not what you think it is. Maybe it's not what happened 4,000 years later amongst the descendant of the Iberians in the Americas where today in Colombia 95% of the Y chromosomes are European.
95% of the mitochondrial DNA are Native American. We know what happened there. It wasn't friendly. It wasn't peaceful. So, so the one time So, and this is what I think is so funny is that the one time that you do know what happened, you automatically assume that it's the Europeans that were evil, that were raping and killing all the Native American women. But in the other instances where you don't know, instead of just assuming that in every single one of the instances where this is understood, the same thing happened, no, actually something different happened. It wasn't nice.
But maybe what happened in Iberia 4,000 years ago amongst these ancestors of people was much more peaceful, was much more How do we have these simps going around looking this [ __ ] up? This is so sad. Oh my god. Um, if you look at detail in Iberia, what you see is the period of this change is actually over 500 years. But if you look at a micro scale, now that we have better data, it's immediate at each place. So in southern Spain, it's very fast. And then in central Spain, it's a little later, but very fast.
And so actually there's these rapid changes occurring in one place or the other. People thought in Britain maybe this was actually a slow process but we now have data not yet published from the Netherlands which is clearly the same population of beaker people that's spreading in Britain and there it's very disruptive and you actually have the whole series of people before and after. You see that earlier cordedware people are local which is actually very unusual for cordedware. This is literally one of the biggest lies in human history so far. I know. And it's been a lie that has been inflicted on Western populations for the last, I would say, 50 to 100 years.
And it is an original sin, guilt, lie that's been associated with our culture and the way that we've evolved. And it's meant to delegitimize, demoralize, and demonize us as a people. That's exactly what it is. And now it's finally being revealed. They're actually local people adopting the religion of the corded wear, but mostly local ancestry and then the beaker arrival is incredible disruption. There's almost no continuity, very little continuity. So probably what's happening with the beaker individuals is one way or the other you have some kind of people who expand demographically and displace people somehow.
Somehow, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? OH, WOW. IT'S THE MAGIC. OH, look at that. Why are all these piles of bones? What's this? Rapidly displaced people over a period of well less than a century. And do we know whether they were well less than a century? How do you like I mean really why are you not just immediately direct about this? Like how do you displace people over less than half of a century? What motivates a person like this? Approval. Social approval. I cuz more modern versions of this um when Cortez goes over to the new world he's like serving field.
Total [ __ ] G abs. This guy, Hernand Cortez, was sailing back and forth with his wife and his mistress on the same boat. The same boat. He had a mutiny. He came back to squash the mutiny. They had died of disease. See, no more problem. Cortez was a lot [ __ ] cooler than Justin Bieber. Exactly. He str he actually strangled his wife. Why? The to the emperor of Spain and so forth or like I don't know the the Mongols and Jenghaskhan or something in this case. I assume there wasn't enough. I'm sure the Genghaskhan I'm sure that like what is I wonder what what percentage of Mongolia is related to Genghaskhan like uh I'm sure that was all consensual, right?
archical organization that something like that was available, but there was enough organized I don't know if organization is the right word, but there was enough sort of like persistent um um uh persistent invasion that like we're going to keep going town to town, settlement to settlement until we've reached the ends of Europe. And so was it just like the Yamaya were just lots of different independent groups that were doing this at the same time or was it like how organized was this basically is what I'm what I mean to ask. But we don't know and I think there's debates even about that.
I think one example I've heard archaeologists I work with think about is um is the Comanche in the US southwest where you know it's another it's actually this is another thing is that there's another um white guilt original sen that we came to America and we started killing all the Native Americans. Uh no we just joined in on the fun. We did. They were killing each other like crazy. Horse-based uh expanding group and they expand super dramatically, you know, in parallel to the Spanish expansion and alongside the US expansion before encountering the US uh sort of militarized United States at some point.
And you know, it's local. There's local bands of people expanding. They go on campaigns. They expand to certain areas. It's it's the the beaker people and the cordedware people. They're contemporary to ancient Sumer and to a lot of the You think we third partied them? I think that we debuffed them. We debuffed them and then uh just kind of let it play out. That's kind of what happened. Uh you know, Egyptians that we actually have written history from. It's not so my understanding like this is like a very limited historical understanding and so like I'm not sure if this is really true but I I've read about this a little bit is that my understanding is that they were already experiencing a rapid population decline before we even started arriving there in like large numbers.
Like this is already something that was happening based off of archaeological like findings. And I think that us being there obviously accelerated something that was already happening. And I, as far as I know, last time I looked into this, this is like I was talking to this like friends of mine like maybe like almost 10 years ago. So like they might have found more about this since then. Uh and I don't know even really when we learned about it like you know when that was written but like uh yeah no this is like I don't even think that they really entirely know why.
They they weren't writing but they they were contemporaries of these people not so much far to their south. So we really don't know what was going on. But if you were part of a community where there is a culture where say the males as we think from reconstructions from Indo-European myth which is probably the class of cultural shared knowledge these people were operating from because we think these people were the spreaders of Indo-Uropean languages in this part of the world. If you think about this as a world where at a certain age men males would band together and go on raiding parties and so on and that would wait if you think you mean like what so you're you're acting as if this isn't obviously what happened wait a minute maybe settle down later in life you can imagine a process where built into the culture you have a process of expansion exploitation thank duh duh of Of course, one thing that's really interesting that has actually emerged in the last years and was not really sort of strong at the time that uh I wrote my book was uh an understanding of the relationship between the Yamna and groups like the Cordedware and the Beakers.
So, the Yamna are these groups that uh thrived between about 5,300 and 4,600 years ago in the steps north of the Black and Caspian seas. They're probably the first people to domesticate the horse or that's arguable and uh they use the horse in the car which was what the [ __ ] is this cognitive dissonance? Well, they just don't want to. The thing is that again it's an entire ideology built around this. I don't know how much more this I'm going to look at. I just look at a couple more minutes invented and the wheel to exploit the open steplands and and and be able to economically expand much more rapidly.
They're the first world's first extreme mobile pastoralists, but they can't get further than the step. So they expand into Europe. They expand into the little island of the step that's in the great Hungarian plane in the Carpathian basin. And they stop. They can't expand their way of life to um Yeah. I wonder why. Probably because they can't. That's how you get [ __ ] This guy teaching made up history. Well, that's what they do, right? Is they make up fake history. They teach people the history. And then they say, "Well, look at the science." And then they make up the science.
And then they say, "You're stupid for not listening to their science." when it's not science at all. They just made it the [ __ ] up.
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