Working on a quick map of Corded Ware descendands to illustrate a point. Some may be able to guess what is what based on shape

Love/Hate relationship with Russian and USSR Archaeology. They make a ton of high quality Maps, are very thorough, and have probably the best Archaeological Literature next to Germany, France and England, and its practically all available online, but they also love to use completely made up or hand-drawn Projections that are a pain in the ass to try and georeference

Without really planning for it, it came that i had to map sites of the Srubnaya Culture as well. Incomplete, but gives a rough overview of its distribution. Ignore the small red dots with the black outline, they arent sites

Apart from the Steppe, it clearly favors the Forest-Steppe as well, possibly indicating that during this period the climate in the area was different.

Middle Scythian Akinakai Swords, Connections with the Ordos Loop are most interesting here

Unfortunately, Information on Andronovo and Begazy is Scarce

Andronovo Sites, Extremely Sparse in the desert, a Crescent shaped migration path would make the most sense for reaching Southern Central Asia and then India and Iran.

This is genuinely a gigantic stretch of land when you use a Projection like this. Andronovo itself is comparable in size to its ancestor, Corded Ware

There are multiple Srubnaya sites in Central Asia, it appears that there Srubnaya Groups moved to the area seperately at the same time when Andronovo groups were, Srubnayans using the western route south and Andronovans going along the Tianshan south.

Starting on Iranics and Indians. Finding info on these groups is scarce, and the datings are all over the place. Most literature is from 50 years ago

All Descendants of the Corded Ware Culture until 1000bc, dropping soon on X after i've added labels

Posting Tomorrow during active hours.

The Indians are not happy about this post

Quite suprised how much attention a somewhat minimalistic Slop map like that Got. I will make a version for Yamnaya as well excluding Corded Ware

Yamnaya WIP.

@haplogroupthink has automated nearly the entire workflow and truncated the time to animate maps by ~80%. Expect more maps more quickly!

This is a pretty big deal as the plugin we had purchased specifically for the purpose of animating the sites simply could not handle the scale and quantity we're working with. We're rendering between 5000 and 12000 individual points at a time—After Effects started crashing after 200, severely bottlenecking our progress.

Special thanks to Claude Code and the five ko-fi donators that helped us afford it ✌🏻😂

Rumour has it a longer form Corded Ware video is in the works...

For now, enjoy this BTS sneak peek at our QGIS-Python-AE pipeline.

Guys did you know they drank milk 🗿🗿🗿