Description
The culture and early settlement of the United States is derived from Europe. We know much about the history of Europe, but how did Europeans become the peoples they are today? The pre-history of Europe has been a very esoteric subject and very little has been published in books. The information for this research has previously been obtained from obscure scholarly journals. Now, new information published in 2016 using genetics as the fourth line of evidence has confirmed previous information derived from archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistics. This lecture will discuss the pre-history of the European Peoples by describing the three settlements of Europe by anatomically modern humans – The Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Indo-European settlements. A discussion of these early cultures will be followed by an account of the progression of these settlements into the modern cultural and linguistic groups that comprise Europe today.
